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.
noun
1.
Also called treadwheel. (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
2.
a dreary round or routine
3.
an exercise machine that consists of a continuous moving belt on which to walk or jog
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