tøyer

Tøyer is a North Germanic verb meaning to stretch or extend. It is used in Danish and Norwegian with largely the same core meaning, though the spelling differs due to orthography. In Norwegian Bokmål, the present tense of the verb is tøyer, used when referring to someone stretching today or currently. The infinitive form is å tøye. The verb commonly appears in contexts related to physical activity, such as warming up before exercise or stretching muscles after exertion. An example in Norwegian is "Han tøyer musklene før trening."

In Danish, the corresponding present tense is tøjer, and the infinitive is at tøje. Danish uses the same general sense of stretching or extending, for example in a sentence like "Han tøjer musklerne før træning." The forms reflect the common Germanic pattern of cognate verbs across the languages.

Beyond literal stretching, tøyer can be used metaphorically to describe extending or widening something, such as one's capabilities or limits, though this usage is less common than the physical sense. The term is generally found in instructional, athletic, or health-related discourse and is not widely used as a noun or in fixed phrases outside of these domains.