Crossword clues for treadmill
treadmill
- Trainer's first to look at factory's exercise equipment
- Traditional philosopher embracing online mobile platform
- Time to study philosopher - it's routine work
- Time to study philosopher in dreary routine
- Gym fixture
- Gym machine
- Fitness center staple
- Routine drudgery — exercise machine
- It gets you nowhere
- Health club staple
- Fitness center equipment
- Drill team (anag) — routine drudgery
- Dreary repetitive work
- . . at the gym
- Symbol of a boring routine
- A job involving drudgery and confinement
- 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
- Exercise machine
- Exercise machine reforming team drill
- On this, exercise is routine drudgery
- On change of trade, factory offers tedious work
- Routine work that's laborious and cyclical in nature
- Routine drudgery - exercise machine
- Punishing drill, mate - it'll get you nowhere
- Piece of gym equipment
- Dreary routine at first to study On Liberty?
- Dreary routine to, at first, study John Stuart?
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
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.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
invented (and named) 1822; originally an instrument of prison discipline; from tread (v.) + mill (n.1). Treadwheel as a similar method of driving machinery is from 1570s.\n\nAs a corrective punishment, the discipline of the stepping mill has had a most salutary effect upon the prisoners, and is not likely to be easily forgotten, while it is an occupation which by no means interferes with, nor is calculated to lessen the value of, those branches of prison regulation which provide for the moral and religious improvement of the criminal.
["Description of the Tread Mill Invented by Mr. William Cubitt of Ipswich for the Employment of Prisoners," London, 1822]
\nBy later generations regarded as a path to physical fitness.Wiktionary
n. 1 A piece of indoor sporting equipment used to allow for the motions of running or walking while staying in one place. 2 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. 3 A mill worked by horses, dogs, etc., treading an endless belt.
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 and confinement [syn: salt mine]
Wikipedia
A treadmill is a device generally for walking or running while staying in the same place. Treadmills were introduced before the development of powered machines, to harness the power of animals or humans to do work, often a type of mill that was operated by a person or animal treading steps of a treadwheel to grind grain. In later times, treadmills were used as punishment devices for people sentenced to hard labour in prisons. The terms treadmill and treadwheel were used interchangeably for the power and punishment mechanisms.
More recently, treadmills are not used to harness power, but as exercise machines for running or walking in one place. Rather than the user powering the mill, the machine provides a moving platform with a wide conveyor belt driven by an electric motor or a flywheel. The belt moves to the rear, requiring the user to walk or run at a speed matching that of the belt. The rate at which the belt moves is the rate of walking or running. Thus, the speed of running may be controlled and measured. The more expensive, heavy-duty versions are motor-driven (usually by an electric motor). The simpler, lighter, and less expensive versions passively resist the motion, moving only when walkers push the belt with their feet. The latter are known as manual treadmills.
According to Sports & Fitness Industry Association, treadmills continue to be the largest selling exercise equipment category by a large margin. As a result, the treadmill industry counts with hundreds of manufacturers throughout the World.
A treadmill is an exercise machine for running or walking while staying in one place
Treadmill or treadmilling may also refer to:
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.