wogging

There used to be this guy in our neighborhood that for all intents and purposes thought he was jogging, but I am pretty sure he was walking briskly while moving his arms in a joggish way.  Don't get me wrong, I give anyone who gets out there and exercises regularly major props, and he sure worked up a sweat doing it.

I commonly refer to this type of exercise as wogging.  Some might call it "walk-jogging."  This was, to my dismay, confirmed and defined right here in urbandictionary.com, definition number 2. 

(if you are a new reader, I will fill you in on the fact that I am feverishly trying to get a first definition original word in urbandictionary.com, as previously blogged about here and here)

Oh I thought I had it this time.  When I looked, I started with wog.  All of the definitions seemed to refer to a derogatory term that I was unaware of, so I thought I could REDEFINE it.  Then I found it under wogging. Wah.  Not fair.

An interesting tidbit that sort of relates: In Anchorman, which could possibly be one of the funniest movies of all time, Ron Burgundy discusses YOGGING -- as he says, "jogging or yogging, it might be with a soft J."  Obviously, this closely resembles my word, and one might argue that I just stole the idea and modified it.  I don't have actual proof, but we referred to the guy in our neighborhood as a wogger way before Anchorman came out.  So I claim it as mine.  My word.  Mine.