stavgång
Swedish
editEtymology
editFrom 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
editstavgång c
- Nordic walking, walking with ski poles for a full-body exercise
Declension
editDeclension of stavgång | ||||
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Indefinite | Definite | |||
Nominative | stavgång | stavgången | — | — |
Genitive | stavgångs | stavgångens | — | — |