title: Nordic
text: # Nordic
  
  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
  
  * 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, 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
  
  * 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 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
  