List of English words of Swedish origin

• aquavit, "a clear Scandinavian liquor flavored with caraway seeds"
• fartlek, "endurance training in which a runner alternates periods of sprinting with periods of jogging"
• gantelope, "gauntlet"
• glögg, "a hot spiced wine and liquor punch served in Scandinavian countries as a Christmas drink"
• gravlax, "salmon cured especially with salt, sugar, pepper, and dill and often additional ingredients "
• gyttja, "a lacustrine mud containing abundant organic material"
• lek, "an assembly area where animals carry on display and courtship behavior"
• lingonberry, " a low-growing, evergreen shrub of cooler, northern regions of North America and Europe that has leathery, oval leaves, white or light pink, bell-shaped, nodding flowers and red berries and is related to the blueberry and cranberry"
• moped, "a lightweight, low-powered motorbike that can be pedaled"
• ombudsman, "a person who investigates, reports on, and helps settle complaints; an individual usually affiliated with an organization or business who serves as an advocate for patients, consumers, employees, etc."
• orienteering, "a competitive or noncompetitive recreational activity in which participants use a map and compass to navigate between checkpoints along an unfamiliar course "
• rutabaga, "a turnip that usually produces a large yellowish root that is eaten as a vegetable"
• skarn, "contact metamorphic rock rich in iron"
• smörgåsbord, "a luncheon or supper buffet offering a variety of foods and dishes "
• strömming, "a small Baltic herring"
• tjäle, "or tjaele, frozen ground"
• torsk, "codfish"
• tungsten, "a gray-white heavy high-melting ductile hard polyvalent metallic element that resembles chromium and molybdenum in many of its properties and is used especially in carbide materials and electrical components and in hardening alloys "
• varve, "a pair of layers of alternately finer and coarser silt or clay believed to comprise an annual cycle of deposition in a body of still water"