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

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

Declension

Declension of stavgång

		nominative	genitive
singular	indefinite	stavgång	stavgångs
	definite	stavgången	stavgångens
plural	indefinite	—	—
	definite	—	—

References

• stavgång in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)
• stavgång in Svenska Akademiens ordbok (SAOB)