Word of the Day

: August 18, 2015

jog trot

noun JAHG-TRAHT

What It Means

1 : a horse's slow measured trot

2 : a routine habit or course of action

jog trot in Context

The weekly Friday-night dances provided the townsfolk with a few hours of respite from the jog trot of life.

"The speed of the trot can vary between the very slow jog trot at less than four miles per hour to the very fast racing trot of the Standardbred, at well over fifteen miles per hour." - Lee Ziegler, Easy-Gaited Horses, 2005

Did You Know?

The jog trot is a type of gait that is sometimes required at horse shows. It appears to have been so named because the horse's often jolting movement is certainly "jogging," and the gait itself is actually a kind of careful, deliberate trot. The term first appeared in print in 1796 and rapidly came to be used in a figurative sense as well, referring to a steady and usually monotonous routine, similar to the slow, regular pace of a horse at a jog trot. There is a suggestion with the generalized sense that the action is uniform and unhurried, and perhaps even a little dull.