Treadmill

Noun

 * 1) A piece of indoor sporting equipment used to allow for the motions of running or walking while staying in one place.
 * 2) A mill worked by persons treading upon steps on the periphery of a wide wheel having a horizontal axis. It is used principally as a means of prison discipline.
 * 3) A mill worked by horses, dogs, etc., treading an endless belt.

Adjectives of Treadmill
hedonic; cosmic; omnidirectional; anti-gravity; underwater; exercise; functional; working; pesticide; high-speed; state-of-the-art; automated; inclined; mobile.

Thesaurus for Treadmill
beat, beaten path, branks, broken record, bureaucracy, bureaucratism, chinoiserie, clockwork regularity, constancy, crank, cucking stool, daily grind, daily round, dingdong, dirty work, donkeywork, drone, drudgery, ducking stool, employment, even pace, even tenor, fag, fatigue, finger pillory, grind, groove, handiwork, handwork, humdrum, industry, invariability, irk, irksomeness, jog trot, labor, lick, lick of work, manual labor, moil, monologue, monotone, monotonousness, monotony, orderliness, pace, pillory, rat race, red tape, red-tapeism, regularity, rote, round, routine, run, rut, sameliness, sameness, scut work, singsong, slavery, smoothness, spadework, squirrel cage, stocks, stroke, stroke of work, sweat, task, tedium, the beaten track, the daily round, the round, the squirrel cage, the treadmill, the weary round, tiresome work, toil, track, travail, trebuchet, triangle, triangles, undeviation, undifferentiation, unvariation, wearisome sameness, well-worn groove, whipping post, wooden horse, work

Related terms

 * treadwheel

Translations of Treadmill

 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin: 跑步機, 跑步机
 * Czech:
 * Finnish: juoksumatto
 * French: tapis roulant
 * German: Tretmühle, Laufband
 * Hungarian:


 * Icelandic: hlaupabretti
 * Japanese: トレッドミル, 踏み車
 * Portuguese: esteira ergométrica, passadeira
 * Russian: бегущая дорожка, беговая дорожка, тредбан, тредмил
 * Volapük: tridamül


 * German:
 * Hungarian:


 * Volapük: tridamül