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treadmill

[ tred-mil ]

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noun

an apparatus for producing rotary motion by the weight of people or animals, treading on a succession of moving steps or a belt that forms a kind of continuous path, as around the periphery of a pair of horizontal cylinders.
an exercise machine that allows the user to walk or run in place, usually on a continuous moving belt.
any monotonous, wearisome routine in which there is little or no satisfactory progress.

treadmill

/ ˈtrɛdˌmɪl /

Also calledtreadwheel (formerly) an apparatus used to produce rotation, in which the weight of men or animals climbing steps on or around the periphery of a cylinder or wheel caused it to turn
a dreary round or routine
an exercise machine that consists of a continuous moving belt on which to walk or jog

First recorded in 1815–25; tread + mill ¹

The fitness coaches at a globo-gym like Gold's would notice that a user was struggling with their squat or treadmill run.

There are a few problems with outfitting an entire office with treadmill desks.

Check in with HR regarding the possibility of getting a standing or treadmill desk to feel the burn all day long.

At the gym, he quizzes the Christian jogging on the neighboring treadmill about the nature of subjective experience.

Within decades, we could take ourselves off the dirty-fuel treadmill.

Pretty well for "a cross between an Astley's chariot, a flying machine and a treadmill."

If you have made no place for yourself by that time in America you belong by a sort of divine decree to the treadmill.

Small wonder if the minister sometimes capitulates to things as they are and resigns himself to the ecclesiastical treadmill.

You struggled without advancing as we sometimes do in dreams, or though you stepped up and down, it was as in a treadmill.

And for all the effect their literary exercises has left on them they might just as well have been put on the treadmill.

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