JOGGED Synonyms: 107 Similar and Opposite Words

jogged

verb

past tense of jog

as in trotted

to go at a pace faster than a walk had to jog to catch up to them

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as in bobbed

to make short up-and-down movements her purse was jogging against her hip as she walked

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Recent Examples of jogged Allen jogged to her white Kia parked in front of his relative’s home and fled on Kenwood Street, documents allege. — Meredith Colias-Pete, Chicago Tribune, 27 Oct. 2026 The car drove off, and the other person who had approached the vehicle jogged after it. — Nathan Pilling, Kansas City Star, 23 Oct. 2026 Almost immediately after the singer concluded, both teams jogged back onto the floor. — Dan Zaksheske Outkick, FOXNews.com, 17 Oct. 2026 Snell jogged back to the mound with a lead for the first time. — Maddie Lee, Los Angeles Times, 15 Oct. 2026 As part of Gilroy’s clever structure, Alex’s memories get jogged during different performing sessions, with different pieces of music, so that each flashback gets its own emotional register. — Bilge Ebiri, Vulture, 5 Oct. 2026 After a fourth-and-1 stop by the defense, quarterback Bryce Young and the Panthers offense jogged back onto the field with one minute left in the contest on their own 17 yard-line. — Alex Zietlow, Charlotte Observer, 27 Sep. 2026 Walker, the team’s $20 million first baseman, went 0-for-9 and jogged out a groundball during the ninth inning of a one-run loss Saturday. — Chandler Rome, New York Times, 13 Sep. 2026 The 47-year-old, a first-year player with the Jaguars who has resuscitated his football career decades after most players hang up their cleats, dutifully jogged out to his spot at right defensive end and got into his stance. — Christian Babcock, Mercury News, 30 Aug. 2026

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Just after the sun melted into the sea a deer trotted by, followed by its more nervous baby.

— David G. Allan, CNN Money, 22 Sep. 2026
In the 10th, automatic runner Joey Ortiz advanced on a bunt and trotted home when Frelick bounced a single to right field off Grant Wolfram (6-4).

— ABC News, ABC News, 18 Sep. 2026

Definition of trotted

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The Chiefs had no answer for Smith-Njigba, who bobbed and weaved his way through the defense for nine catches, 150 yards and a touchdown.

— Kansas City Star, Kansas City Star, 25 Oct. 2026
On a recent morning, surfers bobbed in the water off North Beach, not far from the rocky structure shoring up the train tracks by the sea.

— ABC News, ABC News, 27 Sep. 2026

Definition of bobbed

Verb

Jeff Stotts, an athletic trainer who runs a site that tracks sports injuries, wrote that since 2005, just one player had sustained a torn labrum like Wallace’s and returned later that season.

— Andrew Greif, NBC news, 29 Oct. 2026
The man running as a Libertarian for that Senate seat in Texas, one Ted Brown, had the best line of the day.

— Arkansas Online, Arkansas Online, 29 Oct. 2026

Definition of ran

Verb

Several speakers noted that while fish species are declining dramatically, about 80% of the water that’s diverted and pumped in California is used for agriculture, and vast quantities of almonds and pistachios are being shipped overseas.

— Ian James, Los Angeles Times, 30 Oct. 2026
Three large-scale experiments were underway, but only one — a Norwegian operation that captured carbon from a natural gas field and pumped it under the bed of the North Sea — had rigorously tested permanent storage.

— Katie Worth, ProPublica, 30 Oct. 2026

Definition of pumped

Verb

Risch initially shook the challenger’s hand, then pulled back and brushed past him.

— Sarah Cutler, Idaho Statesman, 27 Oct. 2026
But Todd Golden’s squad shook off a sluggish first half, quickly turned a two-point halftime lead into a double-digit advantage and kept the Hatters at bay during an 85-68 win Tuesday night in the O’Connell Center.

— Edgar Thompson, The Orlando Sentinel, 27 Oct. 2026

Definition of shook

Verb

During the test, Linton jerked and twitched in what prosecutors described as an attempt to fake a seizure.

— James Queally, Los Angeles Times, 2 Oct. 2026
Somewhere nearby, in a dark office, an eavesdropping oreja has just jerked to attention on his hard little chair.

— Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 3 Sep. 2026

Definition of jerked

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The father of Dinesh Deshmukh had approved of Meera’s photograph and nodded with deep interest at Bajirao’s quick listing of Meera’s accomplishments during her nine years of schooling and her subsequent years of housework.

— Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 28 Oct. 2026
Even the afternoon’s custom table runners, made from archival fabric by FIT Menswear students, nodded to the designer’s signature ikat print, first introduced in 1983.

— Ariel Bielsky, Vogue, 24 Oct. 2026

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