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

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

stavgång in Svenska Akademiens ordlista över svenska språket (13th ed., online)
stavgång in Svenska Akademiens ordbok online.

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