Synonyms of toiling

toiling

verb

present participle of toil

as in laboring

to devote serious and sustained effort

toiled for many years on the mammoth outdoor sculpture

Synonyms & Similar Words

• laboring
• struggling
• striving
• working
• endeavoring
• trying
• slaving
• plowing
• sweating
• grubbing
• hustling
• tugging
• drudging
• slogging
• plodding
• digging (away)
• plugging
• moiling
• straining
• humping
• travailing
• pegging (away)
• fagging
• banging away
• applying (oneself)
• beavering (away)
• sweating blood
• buckling (down)
• attacking
• exerting
• hammering (away)
• scratching
• driving
• trudging
• essaying
• exercising
• pitching in
• wading
• digging in
• scrabbling
• overworking
• grinding (out)
• eking out
• knuckling down
• overexerting
• putting out

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• breaking
• slackening
• lounging
• idling
• loafing
• easing (up)
• shirking
• resting
• chilling
• lazing
• dallying
• hanging (around or out)
• bumming
• letting up
• basking
• lolling
• playing
• reposing
• relaxing
• unwinding
• hanging
• hacking (around)
• slacking (off)
• goofing (off)
• dabbling
• goldbricking
• trifling
• footling
• dillydallying
• doodling
• fooling around
• messing around
• vegging out
• puttering (around)
• goofing (around)
• pottering (around)
• monkeying (around)
• hanging about
• fribbling

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of toiling

The videos have delighted audiences to such a degree that the content creator says his days toiling outside are decidedly in the past. — Chris Murphy, Vanity Fair, 19 Aug. 2026

This is a team that spent years toiling to even get on the grid, and has been aggressive in its ambitions to evolve into a future powerhouse. — Luke Smith, New York Times, 19 Aug. 2026

Had the trolls toiling in the darkest tunnels of the internet shown up at her actual doorstep? — Literary Hub, 30 June 2026

These days, many would-be retirees are punching clocks in warehouses, toiling as home health aides, or serving customers in retail stores. — Ann Larson, Time, 11 June 2026

The 60-year-old owner of All-Pro Lawnmower Sales, Service & Recycling at 555 Santa Fe Drive in Denver spends his days toiling on small engines. — Matthew Geiger, Denver Post, 29 May 2026

Though work continues to be handled outside the Trop, a workload with increasing demands with the summer months upon us, the Rays’ grounds crew takes care of a field inside without having to change clothes multiple times per day while toiling in unrelenting heat and humidity. — Tom Layberger, Forbes.com, 26 May 2026

Torn between toiling away at farmwork, his corrective swimming lessons, and learning music from a local organist — the elderly Michel (Alexandre Astier, Clichy’s former directing partner), who shows him more kindness than most — Christophe’s world gradually widens. — Siddhant Adlakha, Variety, 19 May 2026

Wilson’s a working musician’s musician, having spent much of his career toiling at full-time jobs while playing the saxophone and writing music on the side. — Charles Moss, SPIN, 18 May 2026