stavgång
Swedish
stavgång
Etymology
From stav (“staff, pole, ski pole”) + gång (“walking”). This training exercise was developed in the 1980s, but SAOB also mentions this word as used since 1652 as a now obsolete synonym to rågång (“borderline between properties and parishes”).
Noun
stavgång c
- Nordic walking, walking with ski poles for a full-body exercise
Declension
| Declension of stavgång | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Uncountable | ||||
| Indefinite | Definite | |||
| Nominative | stavgång | stavgången | — | — |
| Genitive | stavgångs | stavgångens | — | — |
References
- stavgång in Svenska Akademiens Ordlista över svenska språket (13th ed., online)
- stavgång in Svenska Akademiens ordbok online.
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