jog

Examples

• All

• You go straight through this door here, down the hall, turn right, and then there's a little jog, about 30 feet.

  This Is Spinal Tap (1984)

• Up the rise, past the heiau, a quick jog to the right.

  Fiction book (1999)

• Mission took a jog to the left.

  Jurassic World (2015)

• The bone goes down like this and takes this jog.

  Sunshine Superman (2015)

• Back along the central corridor, jog left toward the nursery, then up to the outer hull.

  Fiction book (2000)

• That and the jog to 14th Avenue South make the streetcar slower than the ETB alternative.

  Blog text (16)

• At the north end of the closet, a tiny jog in the wall made a slight hiding place, and here, stiff with long suspension from a nail, hung a shirt.

  Fiction book (2000)

• The long walls of one building dip toward the sea and then take a sudden jog, as if they slid out of line atop an earthquake fault.

  Academic text (2004)

• The alley takes a jog before it empties out on Fifteenth, which, if you're not up on the local geography, can give you a nasty shock.

  Fiction book (1995)

• The route took a sharp jog to the right, making the path more challenging.

Synonyms

S

swerve

vsjog

7 3.7

A sudden sharp turn to avoid something

is a sudden sharp change not mainly done to avoid obstacles

C

change of course

vsjog

3 4.2

A move to a different direction physically or in plans

is a sudden sharp change rather than a gradual or planned shift

Idioms

J

to jog one's memory

5 4.5

Help someone remember something they forgot

Compounds

J

jog trot

• Jargon

8.4

A gentle, steady way a horse moves between walking and trotting

How Sharp

to kink

3 5.4

jog

1 5.8

turn

485 1.0

to curve

22 2.8

Surface Forms

Etymology