Nordic most commonly refers to: *

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 __NOTOC__ 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 ...

* 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

* Nordic Bronze Age, a period and a Bronze Age culture in Scandinavian pre-history * Nordic folklore * Nordic mythology * Nordic paganism

Relating to a racial category

* Nordic race, a race group * Nordic theory or Nordicism, the belief that Northern Europeans constitute a "master race", a theory which influenced Adolf Hitler. * Nordic League, a far right organisation in the United Kingdom from 1935 to 1939 * Nordic aliens, a group of supposed humanoid extraterrestrial beings whose appearance resembles the Nordic physical type

Sports

* Bidding system for Contract bridge * Nordic combined, a winter sport in which athletes compete in both cross-country skiing and ski jumping *

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 *

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 * Nordic Figure Skating Championships, an annual invitational elite figure skating competition, open only to skaters from Nordic countries * Quebec Nordiques, an ice hockey team

Places

* Nordic, Wyoming, a census-designated place in the United States

Other uses

* Nordic Catholic Church, a church body in Norway of High Church Lutheran origin, under the auspices of the Polish National Catholic Church * ''Nordic'' (tug), a German emergency tow vessel *

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 * Nordic Semiconductor, a fabless semiconductor company * Nordic race, a race from the fictional ''Elder Scrolls'' game series * a 6-rowed feed barley variety * THQ Nordic, a video game development company * Nordic the Incurable, pen name of Finnish journalist Risto Hieta

Synonym for Scandinavian or Norse

Relating to a racial category

Sports

Places

Other uses

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