Other forms: joggers
A jogger is a person out running at an easy pace for exercise. Early morning, high-visibility jacket, and headphones.
The word describes the pace rather than the person, though many runners resent it, since jogger implies you are not really trying. That distinction is entirely a matter of self-image. British English uses joggers as a plural noun for tracksuit bottoms, which is a completely separate sense, so joggers can be wearing joggers. The verb is jog and the activity is jogging.
1nounjoggerA person running at a slow steady pace for exercise.
“A jogger went past for the third time that hour.”
Also accepted in games: runner
Middle English
joggen
English
jog
English, today
jogger
Built from
From jog + -er. jog Of unknown origin. Originally with the meaning of "to shake up and down." Possibly from Middle English joggen, a variant of jaggen (“to pierce, prod, stir up, arouse”); see jag (“sharp projection”). Or, perhaps an early alteration of English shog (“to jolt, shake; depart, go”), from Middle English shoggen, schoggen (“to shake up and down, jog”), from Middle Dutch schocken (“to jolt, bounce”) or Middle Low German schoggen, schocken (“to shog”), ultimately from Proto-West Germanic skukkōn (“to move, shake, tremble”), possibly related to skakan (“to shake, stir”). More at shock.
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