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treadmill
(tredmɪl)
Word forms: plural treadmills
1. countable noun [usually singular]
You can refer to a task or a job as a treadmill when you have to keep doing it although it is unpleasant and exhausting.
Mr Stocks can expect a gruelling week on the publicity treadmill.
2. countable noun
A treadmill is a piece of equipment, for example an exercise machine, consisting of a wheel with steps around its edge or a continuous moving belt. The weight of a person or animal walking on it causesthe wheel or belt to turn.
treadmill in British English
(ˈtrɛdˌmɪl)
noun
1. Also called: treadwheel
(formerly) an apparatus used to produce rotation, in which the weight of people or animals climbing steps on or around the periphery of a cylinder or wheel caused it to turn
2.
a dreary round or routine
3.
an exercise machine that consists of a continuous moving belt on which to walk or jog
treadmill in American English
(ˈtrɛdˌmɪl)
noun
1.
a kind of mill wheel turned by the weight of persons treading steps arranged around its circumference: formerly used as an instrument of prison discipline
2.
a mill driven by an animal treading a sloping, endless belt
3.
any monotonous round of duties, work, etc. in which one seems to get nowhere
4.
a stationary exercise machine, often with speed controls, handles, etc., consisting of a short, wide conveyor belt on which a person walks or runs
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Examples of 'treadmill' in a sentencetreadmill
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British English: treadmill NOUN
tedious job You can refer to a task or a job as a treadmill when you have to keep doing it although it is unpleasant and exhausting.
He exhausted himself on an endless treadmill to pay for rent and food.
- American English: treadmill
- Brazilian Portuguese: maratona
- Chinese: 单调的工作
- European Spanish: rutina
- French: routine
- German: Tretmühle
- Italian: lavoro ingrato
- Japanese: 単調で疲れる仕事
- Korean: 재미없고 피곤한 일
- European Portuguese: maratona
- Latin American Spanish: rutina
British English: treadmill NOUN
exercise machine A treadmill is a piece of equipment, for example, an exercise machine, consisting of a wheel with steps around its edge or a continuous moving belt. The weight of a person or animal walking on it causes the wheel or belt to turn.
- American English: treadmill
- Brazilian Portuguese: esteira
- Chinese: 跑步机
- European Spanish: cinta andadora
- French: tapis roulantN
- German: Laufband
- Italian: tapis roulantattrezzo ginnico
- Japanese: ランニングマシーン
- Korean: >트레드밀걷기 및 달리기를 위한 운동기구
- European Portuguese: esteira
- Latin American Spanish: cinta caminadora
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