This is a list of English language words borrowed from the Swedish language. Some may be from other Scandinavian languages such as Danish or Norwegian, or may come from Old Norse when it was a single language.
ångström, often written as "angstrom" (after the Swedish scientist Anders Jonas Ångström)
fartlek, which means "speed play" in Swedish, is a training method that blends continuous training with interval training.
gauntlet (run the..., an eggcorn of Swedish gatlopp)
gleen, from the Swedish dialectal word glena
glogg or glugg, (Swedish term for mulled wine) from glögg, a portmanteau of glödgat vin, meaning heated wine.
gravlax, the shortened form of gravad lax, meaning “buried salmon”
lek (from the Swedish leka, "to play")
lingonberry, from lingon
moped, Swedish shortening of trampcykel med motor och pedaler ("engined bike with motor and pedals")
ombudsman, a person who acts as a trusted intermediary between an organization and some internal or external constituency.
orienteering, from orientering
rutabaga, from Swedish dialectal rotabagge
smorgasbord (from the Swedish smörgåsbord, literally "sandwich table"), which in Swedish either refers to a buffet with very specific types of food, or is used as a metaphor
snus, a type tobacco product consisting of moist tobacco powder
trapp basalts, or "trapps", stair-shaped rock formations (from the Swedish trappor, "stairs")
tungsten, literally "heavy stone", refers in Swedish to scheelite, a mineral containing tungsten and not the metal itself (Swedish volfram)
yrast, a technical term in nuclear physics that refers to a state of a nucleus with a minimum of energy for a given angular momentum
