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/dʒˈɑgɪŋ/ /dʒˈɔgɪŋ/ Listen

verb

Jog v. t. (past & past part. jogged; pres. part. jogging)

To push or shake with the elbow or hand; to jostle; esp., to push or touch, in order to give notice, to excite one's attention, or to warn. "Now leaps he upright, jogs me, and cries: Do you see Yonder well-favored youth?" "Sudden I jogged Ulysses, who was laid Fast by my side."

To suggest to; to notify; to remind; to call the attention of; as, to jog the memory.

To cause to jog; to drive at a jog, as a horse. See Jog, v. i.

Jog v. i.

To move by jogs or small shocks, like those of a slow trot; to move slowly, leisurely, or monotonously; usually with on, sometimes with over. "Jog on, jog on, the footpath way." "So hung his destiny, never to rot, While he might still jog on and keep his trot." "The good old ways our sires jogged safely over."

To run at less than maximum speed; to move on foot at a pace between a walk and a run; to run at a moderate pace so as to be able to continue for some time; performed by people, mostly for exercise.

noun

Jogging n. The act of giving a jog or jogs; traveling at a jog.

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"Jogging" Quotes from Famous Books

... taken his leave, Hal was summoned to the Constable's hall. 'We must be jogging, my young master,' he said. 'There are rumours of King Edward making another attempt for his crown, and my Lord of Warwick would have me go and watch the eastern seaboard. And you had best go ...

— The Herd Boy and His Hermit • Charlotte M. Yonge

... the keeper's dog came jogging round the fence to take a mouthful of fresh air and a little exercise. He had lost all his teeth and could see only with one eye. He always stopped for a bit when he came to the crab-apple-tree and rubbed himself ...

— The Old Willow Tree and Other Stories • Carl Ewald

... "he is not in your house." "True, sir," said the landlord, "but six months ago, when he was here last, he ordered a duck to be ready for him this day, precisely at two o'clock;" and, to the astonishment of the traveller, he saw the old gentleman, on his Rosinante, jogging into the inn-yard about five minutes ...

— The Book of Three Hundred Anecdotes - Historical, Literary, and Humorous--A New Selection • Various

... THE teacher, jogging out of the barn-yard to the ash-lane, heard a hearty roll of bassos from the kitchen, and did not doubt but that he was its target. He reined in his horse at the bare flower-beds and glowered back at the door. Then, with a mutter, ungrammatical but eloquent, he spurred ...

— The Biography of a Prairie Girl • Eleanor Gates

... Woodlands a bit of enchanted forest cut from an old black-letter legend, in which one half expected to meet mediaeval knights on foaming steeds—every-day folk ride jogging horses—threading their way through the mysterious forest aisles in search of those romantic adventures which were necessary to give knights of that period an excuse for existence. It chanced, however, that the only knights known to Woodlands ...

— Literary Hearthstones of Dixie • La Salle Corbell Pickett

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