treadmill

Tanımlar (İngilizce)

1. isim A piece of indoor sporting equipment used to allow for the motions of running or walking while staying in one place.
2. isim 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.

   “Their paternal house of Drummington, Foker could very seldom be got to visit. He swore he had rather go on the treadmill than stay there.”

3. isim A mill worked by horses, dogs, etc., treading an endless belt.
4. isim A process or situation in which continued effort leads to or is required for remaining at a particular state or level without moving ahead.

   “1 As a result, people can easily find themselves alternating between various treadmills: the hedonic treadmill of pursuing happiness, the status treadmill requiring conspicuous consumption, and the treadmill of work undertaken to finance one's activity on the other two treadmills.”

5. fiil To exercise on a treadmill.
6. fiil To keep busy, for example, with work or with other tasks, without being able to get ahead or make progress towards long-term goals.

   “Back we were in the rat race, treadmilling sixty hours a week and sleeping forty, our sex life was like that of most busy cohabiters I suppose: fun, frolicky, and squeezed in haphazardly when we had a minute—or thirty.”