heavy lifting

noun

: a burdensome or laborious duty

Examples of heavy lifting in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web

Zach LaVine and Domantas Sabonis, meanwhile, did the heavy lifting for Sacramento, with the shooting guard scoring 28 points and the center facilitating the offense with 14 points, eight assists and 18 rebounds. — Joaquin Ruiz, Los Angeles Times, 22 Oct. 2026

After recent seasons of attempting to singularly lift the Milwaukee Bucks, Antetokounmpo found himself not only again in the midst of heavy lifting, but this time also second best on the court. — Ira Winderman, Sun Sentinel, 21 Oct. 2026

Ester Manas — whose return to the runway shifted the average for curve representation — and Xuly Bët did the heavy lifting. — Joe Bobowicz, Vogue, 19 Oct. 2026

Dell’s Data Orchestration engine already does the heavy lifting there, documents, images, video, PDFs, pulling that content into AI-ready pipelines. — Osman Koc, Forbes.com, 16 Oct. 2026

Word History

First Known Use

1980, in the meaning defined above

Rhymes for heavy lifting

• drifting
• gifting
• rifting
• shifting
• sifting
• shoplifting
• uplifting