stavgång

Swedish
stavgång

Etymology

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

stavgång c

  1. 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
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