Nordic most commonly refers to:
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Nordic countries
The Nordic countries (also known as the Nordics or ''Norden''; literal translation, lit. 'the North') are a geographical and cultural region in Northern Europe and the Atlantic Ocean, North Atlantic. It includes the sovereign states of Denmar ...
, written in plural as Nordics, the northwestern European countries, including Scandinavia,
Fennoscandia
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Fennoscandia (Finnish language, Finnish, Swedish language, Swedish and no, Fennoskandia, nocat=1; russian: Фенноскандия, Fennoskandiya) or the Fennoscandian Peninsula is the geographical peninsula in Europe, which includes ...
and the
North Atlantic
The Atlantic Ocean is the second-largest of the world's five oceans, with an area of about . It covers approximately 20% of Earth's surface and about 29% of its water surface area. It is known to separate the "Old World" of Africa, Europe and ...
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Scandinavia, a cultural, historical and ethno-linguistic region in northern Europe
* a native of
Northern Europe
The northern region of Europe has several definitions. A restrictive definition may describe Northern Europe as being roughly north of the southern coast of the Baltic Sea, which is about 54th parallel north, 54°N, or may be based on other g ...
* Nordic or
North Germanic languages
Nordic may also refer to:
Synonym for Scandinavian or Norse
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Nordic Bronze Age, a period and a Bronze Age culture in Scandinavian pre-history
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Nordic folklore
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Nordic mythology
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Nordic paganism
Old Norse religion, also known as Norse paganism, is the most common name for a branch of Germanic religion which developed during the Proto-Norse period, when the North Germanic peoples separated into a distinct branch of the Germanic peop ...
Relating to a racial category
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Nordic race, a race group
* Nordic theory or
Nordicism, the belief that Northern Europeans constitute a "master race", a theory which influenced
Adolf Hitler.
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Nordic League, a far right organisation in the United Kingdom from 1935 to 1939
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Nordic aliens, a group of supposed humanoid extraterrestrial beings whose appearance resembles the Nordic physical type
Sports
* Bidding system for
Contract bridge
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Nordic combined, a winter sport in which athletes compete in both cross-country skiing and ski jumping
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Nordic skiing
Nordic skiing encompasses the various types of skiing in which the toe of the ski boot is fixed to the Ski binding, binding in a manner that allows the heel to rise off the ski, unlike alpine skiing, where the boot is attached to the ski from toe ...
, a winter sport that encompasses all types of skiing where the heel of the boot cannot be fixed to the ski, as opposed to Alpine skiing
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Nordic walking
Nordic walking is a Finnish-origin total-body version of walking that can be done both by non-athletes as a health-promoting physical activity and by athletes as a sport. The activity is performed with specially designed walking poles similar to s ...
, a physical activity and a sport consisting of walking with poles similar to ski poles
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Nordic Figure Skating Championships, an annual invitational elite figure skating competition, open only to skaters from Nordic countries
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Quebec Nordiques, an ice hockey team
Places
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Nordic, Wyoming, a census-designated place in the United States
Other uses
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Nordic Catholic Church, a church body in Norway of High Church Lutheran origin, under the auspices of the Polish National Catholic Church
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''Nordic'' (tug), a German emergency tow vessel
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Nordic model
The Nordic model comprises the economic and social policies as well as typical cultural practices common to the Nordic countries (Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Norway, and Sweden). This includes a comprehensive welfare state and multi-level coll ...
, the economic and social policies common to the Nordic countries
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Nordic Semiconductor, a fabless semiconductor company
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Nordic race, a race from the fictional ''Elder Scrolls'' game series
* a 6-rowed feed
barley variety
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THQ Nordic, a video game development company
* Nordic the Incurable, pen name of Finnish journalist
Risto Hieta
See also
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Norse (disambiguation)
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Norden (disambiguation)
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North, a noun, adjective, or adverb indicating direction or geography
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Nordicity, a Canadian term used to designate "degree of northerliness"
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Nordisk (disambiguation)
Nordisk is a North Germanic languages, Scandinavian word meaning Nordic.
It is commonly found in the names of various entities and organizations based in the Nordic countries, including:
* Nordisk Copyright Bureau, Danish copyright collecting soci ...
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