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Answer for the clue "Gym machine ", 9 letters:
treadmill

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Word definitions for treadmill in dictionaries

WordNet Word definitions in WordNet
n. an exercise device consisting of an endless belt on which a person can walk or jog without changing place a mill that is powered by men or animals walking on a circular belt or climbing steps [syn: treadwheel , tread-wheel ] a job involving drudgery ...

The Collaborative International Dictionary Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Treadmill \Tread"mill`\, n. 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. Also, a mill worked by horses, dogs, etc., treading an endless belt. ...

Usage examples of treadmill.

Vrondisi, the monastery at the foot of Psiloritis, came down to the rich Turkish village of Suros and killed its bloodthirsty aga, just as he had bound two Christians to the treadmill of the well in his garden and was making them turn the wheel.

There, residents can exercise to their cardiovascular delight on Stair-Masters, treadmills, LifeCycles, Nordic Tracks, stationary and recumbent bikes, rowers, cross-country-ski simulators, upper-body ergometers, gravitrons and Cybex resistance equipment.

This pasticcio was reprinted by little treadmill magazines and trade journals all over the country, and from these lifted as a filler by some hundreds of newspapers.

Olympic pentathlete weightlifter, to judge from the muscle-ripping effort of pushing the pedals on the exercise bikes and the Formula One speed her treadmill had suddenly started to go at.

To the left was a freestanding food pantry with a microwave, and to the right was a toilet, an exercise treadmill, and a deep clear pool of constantly recirculating water.

She worked out regularly in the basement gym at the substation, but mostly alone with weights and treadmill.

Toogood that the promulgators of such doctrines ought to be consigned to the treadmill.

They sweated through the machines, and atop the treadmills Kate dropped questions instead of pounds.

MARY Ashley was sworn in as the ambassador to the Socialist Republic of Remania, and the treadmill began.

And it was they who moved, not the forest, working a treadmill of mud and slime and green sweat without respite or hope of progress, mind sunk complaisantly into body, a stone beneath the ripples and eddying of language.

And they would have been able to do some real work up here, instead of the small-scale make-work experiments they'd had to run: monitoring herself for drug metabolism by taking saliva samples, checking for radiation health with miniature dosimeters strapped to her body, checking her respiration during exercises on the treadmill, investigating the relationship between bone density and venous pressure by wearing dumb little tourniquets around her ankle.

And they would have been able to do some real work up here, instead of the small-scale make-work experiments they'd had to run: monitoring herself for drug metabolism by taking saliva samples, checking for radiation health with miniature dosimeters strapped to her body, checking her respiration during exercises on the treadmill, investigating the relationship between bone density and venous pressure by wearing dumb little tourniquets around her ankle .

And I would chase away my pursuers and set them on some eternal treadmill, a path to nowhere.

Through a gray fog he noticed a copper snake at the far end -- much, much bigger than any he had seen before -- and a grindstone, and a smaller edition of the treadmill upstairs, underneath one thing that he could never overlook: a great big gold ball on a pillar near the door, big enough for a man to stand up in if it were hollow.

In front of the window an exercise bike and an electronic treadmill stood side by side.