jogging

English

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈd͡ʒɒɡ.ɪŋ/

• Audio (Southern England):

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• (US) IPA^(key): /ˈd͡ʒɑ.ɡɪŋ/
• (General Australian) IPA^(key): /ˈd͡ʒɔɡ.ɪŋ/
• Hyphenation: jog‧ging

Etymology 1

Etymology tree

English jog

Proto-Germanic *-ungō

Old English -ung

Middle English -ynge

English -ing

English jogging

From jog + -ing.

Noun

jogging (countable and uncountable, plural joggings)

1. The action of the verb to jog.

   His jogging of my memory helped me recall what happened that day.

2. The practice of running at a relatively slow pace for exercise.

Derived terms

• aqua jogging
• horizontal jogging
• jogging bra
• joggingly
• jogging stroller
• nonjogging
• sightjogging

Related terms

• jog
• jogger
• joggling

Descendants

• → French: jogging
• → Italian: jogging
• → Portuguese: jogging
• → Spanish: jogging

Translations

action of the verb "to jog"

• Finnish: (muistin) virkistäminen

form of exercise

• Arabic: هَرْوَلَة f (harwala)

  Hijazi Arabic: هَرْوَلة f (harwala)

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 慢跑 (zh) (mànpǎo), 跑步 (zh) (pǎobù)

• Finnish: hölkkä (fi), lenkkeily (fi)
• French: jogging (fr) m, footing (fr) m (dated)
• German: Jogging (de) n
• Hebrew: ריצה קלה f (ritsá kalá)
• Hindi: जॉगिंग (jŏgiṅg)
• Hungarian: kocogás (hu)
• Icelandic: skokk (is) n
• Italian: jogging (it) m
• Japanese: ジョギング (ja) (jogingu)
• Korean: 조깅 (ko) (joging)
• Malay: joging
• Marathi: जॉगिंग n (jŏgiṅga)
• Persian: جاگینگ (jâging) (informal)
• Polish: jogging (pl) m
• Portuguese: jogging m
• Russian: бег (ru) m (beg), бег трусцо́й (ru) m (beg truscój), джо́гинг m (džóging), джо́ггинг (ru) m (džógging)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: џо̀гинг m

  Latin: džòging (sh) m

• Spanish: footing m (fútin), jogging m (yóguin), aerobismo m, pedestrismo m, trote (es) m
• Swedish: joggning (sv) c
• Thai: please add this translation if you can
• Turkish: jogging (tr)
• Ukrainian: біг пі́дтюпцем m (bih pídtjupcem), швидка́ хода́ m (švydká xodá), джоґінґ m (džoging)
• Vietnamese: chạy bộ

Further reading

• jogging on Wikiversity.Wikiversity
• Category:jogging on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Verb

jogging

1. present participle and gerund of jog

French

Etymology

Borrowed from English jogging.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /dʒɔ.ɡiŋ/, /ʒɔ.ɡiŋ/

• Audio:

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• Audio (France (Vosges)):

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• Audio (France (Lyon)):

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• Rhymes: -iŋ

Noun

jogging m (plural joggings)

1. (uncountable) jogging (exercise)
2. (countable) jog (exercise)
3. jogging pants; jogging bottoms

Synonyms

• footing (dated)

Further reading

• “jogging”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012

Italian

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from English jogging.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈd͡ʒɔɡ.ɡinɡ/, /ˈd͡ʒɔɡ.ɡin/
• Rhymes: -ɔɡɡinɡ, -ɔɡɡin

Noun

jogging m (uncountable)

1. jogging (exercise)

Polish

jogging

Etymology

Etymology tree

English jog

Proto-Germanic *-ungō

Old English -ung

Middle English -ynge

English -ing

English joggingubor.

Polish jogging

Unadapted borrowing from English jogging.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈd͡ʐɔ.ɡiŋk/

• Audio:

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• Rhymes: -ɔɡiŋk
• Syllabification: jo‧gging

Noun

jogging m inan

1. jogging (practice of running at a relatively slow pace for exercise)

Declension

Declension of jogging

	singular
nominative	jogging
genitive	joggingu
dative	joggingowi
accusative	jogging
instrumental	joggingiem
locative	joggingu
vocative	joggingu

Related terms

nouns

• jogger

Further reading

• “jogging”, in Wielki słownik języka polskiego‎^[1] (in Polish), Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
• “jogging”, in Polish dictionaries at PWN‎^[2] (in Polish)
• jogging in PWN's encyclopedia

Portuguese

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from English jogging.

Pronunciation

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˈd͡ʒɔ.ɡĩ/

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /ˈʒɔ.ɡĩɡ/ [ˈʒɔ.ɣĩɡ]

Noun

jogging m (uncountable)

1. jogging (running at a slow pace as a form of exercise)
2. jogging bottoms; sweatpants (loose pants designed for jogging or comfort)

Further reading

• “jogging”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2026

Romanian

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from English jogging.

Noun

jogging n (uncountable)

1. jogging

Declension

singular only	indefinite	definite
nominative-accusative	jogging	joggingul
genitive-dative	jogging	joggingului
vocative	joggingule

Spanish

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from English jogging.

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /ˈʝoɡin/ [ˈɟ͡ʝo.ɣ̞ĩn]

• IPA^(key): /ˈʝoɡin/ [ˈɟ͡ʝo.ɣ̞ĩn] (everywhere but Argentina and Uruguay)
• IPA^(key): /ˈʃoɡin/ [ˈʃo.ɣ̞ĩn] (Buenos Aires and environs)
• IPA^(key): /ˈʒoɡin/ [ˈʒo.ɣ̞ĩn] (elsewhere in Argentina and Uruguay)

• Rhymes: -oɡin

Noun

jogging m (uncountable)

1. running, jogging

   Synonym: footing

Usage notes

According to Royal Spanish Academy (RAE) prescriptions, unadapted foreign words should be written in italics in a text printed in roman type, and vice versa, and in quotation marks in a manuscript text or when italics are not available. In practice, this RAE prescription is not always followed.

Further reading

• “jogging”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8.1, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 15 December 2025

Swedish

Alternative forms

• joggning

Noun

jogging c

1. (exercise) jogging

Declension

Declension of jogging

		nominative	genitive
singular	indefinite	jogging	joggings
	definite	joggingen	joggingens
plural	indefinite	—	—
	definite	—	—

Related terms

• jogga
• joggare

References

• “jogging”, in Svenska Akademiens ordlista [Wordlist of the Swedish Academy] (in Swedish)

Turkish

Etymology

From English jogging.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ʒɔ.ɟiɲɟ/

Noun

jogging (definite accusative joggingi, plural joggingler)

1. jogging

Declension

Declension of jogging

	singular	plural
nominative	jogging	joggingler
definite accusative	joggingi	joggingleri
dative	jogginge	jogginglere
locative	joggingde	jogginglerde
ablative	joggingden	jogginglerden
genitive	joggingin	jogginglerin