Nordic
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(Redirected from Nordics)
Nordic most commonly refers to:
- Nordic countries, written in plural as Nordics, the northwestern European countries, including Scandinavia, Fennoscandia and the North Atlantic
- Scandinavia, a cultural, historical and ethno-linguistic region in northern Europe
- a native of Northern Europe
- Nordic or North Germanic languages
Nordic may also refer to:
Synonym for Scandinavian or Norse
[edit]- 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
[edit]- 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
[edit]- Bidding system for Contract bridge
- Nordic combined, a winter sport in which athletes compete in both cross-country skiing and ski jumping
- Nordic skiing, 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, 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
[edit]- Nordic, Wyoming, a census-designated place in the United States
Other uses
[edit]- 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 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
- THQ Nordic, a video game development company
- Nordic the Incurable, pen name of Finnish journalist Risto Hieta
- Ys X: Nordics, a 2023 video game
See also
[edit]- All pages with titles beginning with Nordic
- Norse (disambiguation)
- Norden (disambiguation)
- North, a noun, adjective, or adverb indicating direction or geography
- Nordicity, a Canadian term used to designate "degree of northerliness"
- Nordisk (disambiguation)