Meaning

An energetic trot, slower than a run, often used as a form of exercise..

Definitions by Sense

1. An energetic trot, slower than a run, often used as a form of exercise.
2. A sudden push or nudge.
3. (theater) A flat placed perpendicularly to break up a flat surface.
4. In card tricks, one or more cards that are secretly made to protrude slightly from the deck as an aid to the performer.
5. (transitive) To push slightly; to move or shake with a push or jerk, as to gain the attention of; to jolt.
6. (transitive) To shake, stir or rouse.
7. (intransitive) To walk or ride forward with a jolting pace; to move at a heavy pace, trudge; to move on or along.
8. (exercise, intransitive) To move at a pace between walking and running, to run at a leisurely pace.

Example Sentences

Even when I gave her a jog with my elbow, she kept staring at her French book. Even when I gave her a nudge with my knee, she kept ignoring me.

This angle is somewhat more acute than that of the right and left walls of the Western box set; but unlike the walls of the box set, the Kabuki wall is never broken up by a jog or by a succession of jogs.

jog one's elbow

c. 1593, John Donne, Satire I, Now leaps he upright, Joggs me, and cryes: Do you see Yonder well favoured youth? Oh, ’tis hee That dances so divinely

When now was wasted more than half the night, And the stars faded at approaching light; Sudden I jogg’d Ulysses, who was laid Fast by my side, and shiv’ring thus I said.

I tried desperately to jog my memory.

1673, John Milton, “Another on the same” preceded by “On the University Carrier, who sickn’d in the time of his vacancy, being forbid to go to London, by reason of the Plague” referring to Thomas Hobson, in Poems, &c. upon Several Occasions, London: Tho. Dring, p. 33, Here lieth one who did most truly prove, That he could never die while he could move, So hung his destiny, never to rot, While he might still jogg on and keep his trot,

Jog on, jog on, the foot-path way.

Word Forms

• jogs
• jogging
• jogged

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Use jog when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.

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