treadmill
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.
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How to use treadmill in a sentence
By then, the new treadmill is on Craigslist, and we’re on our second box of Valentine’s Day chocolates because we deserve to treat ourselves.
Conquer ‘Moby-Dick,’ finish ‘Infinite Jest’: Avid readers share their resolutions for 2021 | Ron Charles | January 26, 2021 | Washington PostPredictably, even as indoor Strava activities such as trainer rides and treadmill runs jumped in those countries, outdoor activities—at least those posted to Strava—plummeted by roughly 66 percent compared to normal times.
It’s defined as the ratio of peak treadmill speed in the VO2 max test to 3,000-meter race speed.
When to Stop Strength Training Before a Big Race | Alex Hutchinson | January 13, 2021 | Outside OnlineLed by first author Clarissa Whiting, a former Penn track star, the researchers recruited ten elite trail runners and had them run or walk on level ground and with the treadmill set to 30 degrees.
Yes, Walking Is Sometimes Faster than Running Uphill | Alex Hutchinson | December 27, 2020 | Outside OnlineIt includes a wealth of videos led by fit and enthusiastic instructors who guide users through activities like yoga, treadmill running, and indoor rowing.
Apple’s Fitness+ workout service: enthusiasm, energy, and plenty of integration | Aaron Pressman | December 15, 2020 | Fortune
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.
Work Like Churchill-Ditch Your Office Chair and Embrace the Standing Desk | Gregory Ferenstein | June 2, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTCheck 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.
Atheist Philosopher Peter Boghossian’s Guide to Converting Believers | Michael Schulson | November 2, 2013 | THE DAILY BEASTWithin decades, we could take ourselves off the dirty-fuel treadmill.
Mark Ruffalo on the Gulf Gas-Well Blowout and Why We Need to Kick Fossil Fuels to the Curb | Mark Ruffalo | July 29, 2013 | THE DAILY BEASTPretty well for "a cross between an Astley's chariot, a flying machine and a treadmill."
Glances at Europe | Horace GreeleyIf you have made no place for yourself by that time in America you belong by a sort of divine decree to the treadmill.
Ancestors | Gertrude AthertonSmall wonder if the minister sometimes capitulates to things as they are and resigns himself to the ecclesiastical treadmill.
The Minister and the Boy | Allan HobenYou struggled without advancing as we sometimes do in dreams, or though you stepped up and down, it was as in a treadmill.
The Portland Sketch Book | VariousAnd for all the effect their literary exercises has left on them they might just as well have been put on the treadmill.
A Treatise on Parents and Children | George Bernard Shaw
British Dictionary definitions for treadmill
/ (ˈtrɛdˌmɪl) /
Also called: treadwheel (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
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