jog

noun

1. 1

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

2. 2

   A sudden push or nudge.

   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.

3. 3

   A flat placed perpendicularly to break up a flat surface.

   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.

4. 4

   In card tricks, one or more cards that are secretly made to protrude slightly from the deck as an aid to the performer.

verb

1. 1

   To push slightly; to move or shake with a push or jerk, as to gain the attention of; to jolt.

   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.

2. 2

   To shake, stir or rouse.

   I tried desperately to jog my memory.

3. 3

   To walk or ride forward with a jolting pace; to move at a heavy pace, trudge; to move on or along.

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

   That fiery doctor who had hailed me friend, Did it because my by-paths, once proved wrong And beaconed properly, would commend again The good old ways our sires jogged safely o’er, Though not their squeamish sons; […]

4. 4

   To move at a pace between walking and running, to run at a leisurely pace.

   I saw her jogging in the forest yesterday.

5. 5

   To cause to move at an energetic trot.

   to jog a horse

6. 6

   To straighten stacks of paper by lightly tapping against a flat surface.

Forms

plural

jogs

past tense

jogged

past participle

jogged

present participle

jogging

third person singular

jogs