stavgång
Swedish
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Etymology
[edit]From stav (“staff, pole, ski pole”) + gång (“walking”), calque of Finnish sauvakävely. 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
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- Nordic walking, walking with ski poles for a full-body exercise
Declension
[edit]| nominative | genitive | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| singular | indefinite | stavgång | stavgångs |
| definite | stavgången | stavgångens | |
| plural | indefinite | — | — |
| definite | — | — |
References
[edit]- “stavgång”, in Svenska Akademiens ordlista [Wordlist of the Swedish Academy] (in Swedish)
- “stavgång”, in Svenska Akademiens ordbok [Dictionary of the Swedish Academy] (in Swedish)