jogging

«jogging» in Mova's school dictionary: Running slowly and steadily for exercise — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 3 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

part of speech

noun (jogging, uncountable); verb (jog, jogs, jogged, jogging)

meaning for a pupil

1) Running slowly and steadily for exercise. tree →

2) (verb) To push or knock something gently, as in «Don't jog my arm». tree →

3) «jog someone's memory» — help them remember. tree →

4) Jogging can also mean walking or travelling along at an easy, steady pace. tree →

sense in the lessons

In PE and health: jogging keeps the heart healthy. In maths: speed, distance and time problems about jogging. In everyday life: «go jogging», a jogging track. Phrases: go jogging, jog your memory.

examples

• Mum goes jogging every morning. tree →
• Jogging is good for your heart. tree →
• We jogged two laps of the field. tree →
• Don't jog the table — I'm drawing. tree →
• This photo might jog your memory. tree →
• He jogs at 8 kilometres an hour. tree →
• We wore our jogging bottoms for PE. tree →
• This he did, jogging along, till he came to two labourers who had fallen into a ditch. tree →

note

Double g in jogging and jogged. Person: jogger. «Jogging bottoms» (UK) = tracksuit trousers; «joggers» can also mean these. In maths, jogging speed is slower than running: distance = speed × time.

In the corpora

• Professional midfielders often cover about 10 to 12 km in a match, in a mix of walking, jogging and sprinting.
• A few minutes of jogging and moving stretches warms the muscles up before going on.
• Long, still stretches before exercise don't prevent most injuries; a gentle warm-up of moving and jogging is better.

Trees and pragmatics

Every meaning and example of «jogging» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.