Nordic
# 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
