Nordic

Nordic most commonly refers to:

Nordic may also refer to:

Synonym for Scandinavian or Norse

  • Nordic Bronze Age, a period and a Bronze Age culture in Scandinavian pre-history
  • Nordic folklore
  • Nordic mythology

Relating to a racial category

  • Nordic race, a race group
  • Nordic theory or Nordicism, the belief that Northern Europeans constitute a "master race", a theory which influenced Adolf Hitler.
  • Nordic League, a far right organisation in the United Kingdom from 1935 to 1939
  • Nordic aliens, a group of supposed humanoid extraterrestrial beings whose appearance resembles the Nordic physical type

Sports

  • Nordic combined, a winter sport in which athletes compete in both cross-country skiing and ski jumping
  • Nordic skiing, a winter sport that encompasses all types of skiing where the heel of the boot cannot be fixed to the ski, as opposed to Alpine skiing
  • Nordic walking, a physical activity and a sport consisting of walking with poles similar to ski poles
  • Nordic Figure Skating Championships, an annual invitational elite figure skating competition, open only to skaters from Nordic countries
  • Quebec Nordiques, an ice hockey team

Places

Other uses

  • Nordic Catholic Church, a church body in Norway of High Church Lutheran origin, under the auspices of the Polish National Catholic Church
  • Nordic (tug), a German emergency tow vessel
  • Nordic model, the economic and social policies common to the Nordic countries
  • Nordic Semiconductor, a fabless semiconductor company
  • Nordic race, a race from the fictional Elder Scrolls game series
  • a 6-rowed feed barley variety
  • THQ Nordic, a video game development company
  • Nordic the Incurable, pen name of Finnish journalist Risto Hieta

See also

  • All pages with titles beginning with Nordic
  • Norse (disambiguation)
  • Norden (disambiguation)
  • North, a noun, adjective, or adverb indicating direction or geography
  • Nordicity, a Canadian term used to designate "degree of northerliness"
  • Nordisk (disambiguation)
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