JOGGING Synonyms: 104 Similar and Opposite Words

jogging

verb

present participle of jog

as in trotting

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

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as in bobbing

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

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Recent Examples of jogging High-intensity running also dropped, while jogging and walking increased. — Alan McCall, New York Times, 11 July 2026 His jogging dispatches have become a fixture on LinkedIn with nearly 50 running videos filmed in the past year. — Rachel Ventresca, Fortune, 5 July 2026 Ohtani paused on his follow-through, his lips pursed, before jogging up the line. — Maddie Lee, Los Angeles Times, 4 July 2026 Nearby in Tribeca the same day, Kelce was spotted jogging solo through the streets. — Kathleen Perricone, Entertainment Weekly, 1 July 2026 Kelce apparently also is in New York, as a fan shared a photo said to be of him jogging. — Lisa Gutierrez, Kansas City Star, 1 July 2026 Soto was jogging to the ball, while the veteran Springer was booking it around the basepaths. — Scott Thompson, FOXNews.com, 30 June 2026 And Bericoto, to the bewilderment of everyone, put his head down and started jogging to second, apparently thinking Haase had struck out. — Justice Delos Santos, Mercury News, 30 June 2026 The charges stem from an incident reported in the morning hours while a juvenile was jogging near Wilton High School and Allens Meadows Park, police said. — Justin Muszynski, Hartford Courant, 26 June 2026

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The movie’s globe-trotting opening sequence features pirates, outlaws and a mummy used as toilet paper.

— Patrick Ryan, USA Today, 1 July 2026
In true treasure hunting style, the movie is a globe-trotting adventure with stops in Bangkok, Vienna, Vatican City and Cairo as well as a brief visit to London.

— Caroline Reid, Forbes.com, 30 June 2026

Definition of trotting

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Countless trees were felled and taken to Eugene for processing in mills or floated up the Willamette to Portland, the sawn trunks chained together in massive, bobbing rafts.

— Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 10 July 2026
While the lights themselves aren’t drawing in spiders, the moths, gnats, mosquitoes, and mayflies bobbing around the lights do.

— Karen Brewer Grossman, Southern Living, 9 July 2026

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Compared with a commercial GPU running the same image-denoising task, the optical system delivered more than a hundred times faster inference while using only about one-ninth of the computational resources.

— Neetika Walter, Interesting Engineering, 13 July 2026
What can go wrong in the aorta The aorta is the body's largest artery, running from the heart down through the chest and abdomen.

— Dr. Céline Gounder, CBS News, 13 July 2026

Definition of running

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Iran struck a pumping station on Saudi’s pipeline to the Red Sea in April, which slashed throughput by 700,000 bpd.

— Spencer Kimball, CNBC, 16 July 2026
Doctors soon discovered a dangerous buildup of fluid surrounding Indiana's heart that was preventing it from pumping properly, requiring emergency surgery.

— Stephanie Giang-Paunon, FOXNews.com, 14 July 2026

Definition of pumping

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Restaurants near the Theater District fill up fast for the matinee crowd, sightseeing lines stretch long, and sprinting from the subway to your seat with two minutes to spare is not the way to start a night out.

— Lauren Schuster, Charlotte Observer, 13 July 2026
Moon then chipped a nifty shot over Sacramento goalkeeper Danny Vitiello before sprinting to the corner kick flag and delivering a flying karate kick that snapped the pole at its base.

— Idaho Statesman, Idaho Statesman, 12 July 2026

Definition of sprinting

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He is later seen greeting incarcerated men in the prison canteen, shaking hands and performing with several inmates serving as his backing band.

— ABC News, ABC News, 18 July 2026
Jelly then enters the prison canteen, greeting hundreds of other inmates and shaking their hands.

— Escher Walcott, PEOPLE, 18 July 2026

Definition of shaking

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Watching their relationship devolve (never more so than when their sperm donor, a rakish, motorcycle-driving restaurant owner played by Mark Ruffalo, enters the scene) is most definitely a tear-jerking experience, as is the film’s final scene.

— Liam Hess, Vogue, 28 June 2026
Some were petty — like Reese committing a foul against Clark, then jerking her head back, impersonating Clark as a flopper.

— Candace Buckner, New York Times, 27 June 2026

Definition of jerking

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