ALL meanings of treadmill
tread·mill
T t - noun treadmill walking or running machine 1
- noun treadmill repetitive work routine, daily grind 1
- noun 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. 1
- noun treadmill an exercise machine that allows the user to walk or run in place, usually on a continuous moving belt. 1
- noun treadmill any monotonous, wearisome routine in which there is little or no satisfactory progress. 1
- countable noun 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. 0
- countable noun treadmill 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. 0
- noun treadmill (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 0
- noun treadmill a dreary round or routine 0
- noun treadmill an exercise machine that consists of a continuous moving belt on which to walk or jog 0
- noun treadmill 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 0
- noun treadmill a mill driven by an animal treading a sloping, endless belt 0
- noun treadmill any monotonous round of duties, work, etc. in which one seems to get nowhere 0
- noun treadmill a stationary exercise machine, often with speed controls, handles, etc., consisting of a short, wide conveyor belt on which a person walks or runs 0