stavgång

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Swedish[edit]

stavgång
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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[edit]

stavgång c

  1. Nordic walking, walking with ski poles for a full-body exercise

Declension[edit]

Declension of stavgång 
Uncountable
Indefinite Definite
Nominative stavgång stavgången
Genitive stavgångs stavgångens

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