Meaning Of The Word Treadmill

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What's The Definition Of Treadmill?

treadmill
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.

treadmill in American English
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
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

treadmill in British English
noun: (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

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