treadmill
IPA: trˈɛdmɪɫ
noun
- A piece of indoor sporting equipment used to allow for the motions of running or walking while staying in one place.
- (historical) A mill worked by persons treading upon steps on the periphery of a wide wheel having a horizontal axis. It was used principally as a means of prison discipline.
- A mill worked by horses, dogs, etc., treading an endless belt.
- (figurative) A process or situation in which continued effort leads to or is required for remaining at a particular state or level without moving ahead.
verb
- (intransitive) To exercise on a treadmill.
- To keep busy, for example with work or with other tasks, without being able to get ahead or make progress towards long-term goals.
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Examples of "treadmill" in Sentences
- I've gone through the treadmill.
- Air does not move with the treadmill.
- Stand on the treadmill but don't run.
- On the treadmill for exactly one hour.
- A treadmill was planned, but never sent.
- The Eggmobile floating above a treadmill.
- There are many examples of the euphemism treadmill.
- The treadmill is a reference to an 'expert' exerciser.
- A Treadmill Desk is a working desk built around a treadmill.
- The treadmill is targeted to launch to the station in August.
- Astronauts use bungee cords to strap themselves to the treadmill.
- Yes, but you fail to explain how the treadmill is supposed to take off.
- Using the term treadmill is arguably increasingly inappropriate too, as it leads people to think it can continue ad infinitum.
- Two hundred days in, "the incline on the treadmill is not as steep," the official said, but added, "it's still moving very fast."
- Besides, that treadmill is too large in relationship to the size of the plane for the plane to be able to carry it up into the sky.
- Overall, I find that walking the dog or jogging on the treadmill is a great way to work out problems or come up with new ideas for writing.
- I fully believe that NASA should have named the node itself after Colbert - fact is, he won - but the treadmill is a nice consolation prize.
- Just to assuage my concerns regarding a possibly-euphemistic treadmill, is there any practical difference between “targeted killing” and assassination?
- EH: Just to assuage my concerns regarding a possibly-euphemistic treadmill, is there any practical difference between “targeted killing” and assassination?
- Which is why at the heart of the Goodair Total Body Plan - a five- or six-week programme of between four and six 90-minute sessions a week - is what he calls treadmill aerobics.