• Finnish: legi

• Danish: runde
• Finnish: ottelu
• Portuguese: partida
• Russian: этап (etáp) in a relay-race, круг (krug) running, тур (tur) of a contest
• Swedish: omgång , runda

Derived terms

• foreleg
• get one's leg over
• hind leg
• leggy
• leg it
• legroom
• legs eleven
• legwork
• make a leg
• pull a leg
• shake a leg
• show a bit of leg
• show a leg
• stretch one's legs

See also

• ankle
• arm
• buttocks
• calf
• elbow
• foot
• hip
• joint
• knee
• lap
• limb
• shank
• shin
• thick
• thigh
• vertebra

Verb

1. To put a series of three or more options strikes into the stock market.
2. To remove the legs from an animal carcass.
3. To build legs onto a platform or stage for support.

Derived terms

• leg it

Danish

Noun

leg

1. play
2. roe (of fish)

Dutch

Verb

leg

1. (first-person singular indicative present tense of leggen) lay, put

German

Verb

leg(e)

1. (first-person singular indicative present tense of legen) lay, put

Icelandic

Noun

leg (leg-s, leg)

1. uterus

Derived terms

• legháls
• leghálssýking
• legnám

Romanian

Pronunciation

Verb

leg

Swedish

Noun

leg (also legg)

1. Short form of legitimation: any kind of ID card.

Torres Strait Creole

Etymology

From English leg.

Noun

leg

1. lower leg, foot

Synonyms

• ngar (western dialect)

A leg is a limb on an animal's body that supports the rest of the animal above the ground between the ankle and the hip and is used for locomotion. The end of the leg furthest from the animal's body is often either modified or attached to another structure that is modified to disperse the animal's weight on the ground (see foot). In bipedal vertebrate animals, the two lower limbs are usually referred to as the 'legs' and the two upper limbs as the 'arms' or 'wings' as the case may be.

Legs typically come in even-numbered quantities. Many taxonomic groups are characterized by the number of legs its members possess.

• Uniped: 1
• Biped: 2
• Tripedal: 3
• Quadruped: 4
• Quinped: 5
• Arthropoda: 4, 6, 8, 12, or 14
  • Some arthropods have more than a dozen legs; a few species possess over 100. Despite what their names might suggest,
    • Centipedes typically have fewer than one hundred legs
    • Millipedes have fewer than one thousand legs.

Evolution

The leg has evolved several times, most significantly among arthropods (crustaceans, insects, arachnids, et cetera) and vertebrates. In both cases, they are thought to have first evolved for locomotion underwater, then have been exploited for movement over land.

See also

• Human leg

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