Abstract: The invention relates to a movement counter with a pendulum weight pivotably mounted in a roughly vertically located plane when the instrument is in the use position and which acts on an indicating means with which is associated a scale for the distance covered and whose pendulum part can be set by a manually adjustable stop, whose adjusting means project through an opening in the casing. Apart from the scale for indicating the distance covered, a second scale is provided, whereon the indicating means indicates the average step length after covering a predetermined distance.