Definitions for treadmill

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treadmill tread·mill

Spelling: [tred-mil]

IPA: /ˈtrɛdˌmɪl/

Treadmill is a 9 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 12 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 15 points.

You can make 535 anagrams from letters in treadmill (adeillmrt).

Definitions for treadmill

noun

1. 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.
2. an exercise machine that allows the user to walk or run in place, usually on a continuous moving belt.
3. any monotonous, wearisome routine in which there is little or no satisfactory progress.

Origin of treadmill

First recorded in 1815-25; tread + mill¹

Examples for treadmill

We trudge in the treadmill and call it love of our ancient institutions.

He took me up, indeed, in his hand; but he put me in a cage, a treadmill.

It is provided with a treadmill just forward of the big stern wheel.

He took me in his hand, certainly, but he popped me into a cage, a treadmill.

There are a few problems with outfitting an entire office with treadmill desks.

Williams scolds him for not playing hard enough against her while she runs on a treadmill.

The fitness coaches at a globo-gym like Gold's would notice that a user was struggling with their squat or treadmill run.

“That scene of Serena on the treadmill, that's what makes her so great: she is hell bent on winning,” Baird says.

The bovine humanity fitted to the machinery as the ox to the treadmill.

Check in with HR regarding the possibility of getting a standing or treadmill desk to feel the burn all day long.