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

Many CEOs will have no choice but to devote their efforts to guessing, interpreting and trying to influence what the president wants, rather than toiling on behalf of their shareholders and customers. —Senior Fellow, MSNBC Newsweek, 2 Sep. 2025

The aforementioned deal sheets would often see people still toiling away well beyond midnight in order to get late business over the line. —Leon Imber, New York Times, 1 Sep. 2025

Bulls are constantly toiling away at endeavors that speak to their artistry. —Lisa Stardust, People.com, 1 Sep. 2025

Raised in smoky Manchester, her tiny hands toiling away in cotton mills, she’s kept in line by a steely disciplinarian father. —Radhika Seth, Vogue, 1 Sep. 2025

The 26-year-old looks a shadow of the player that helped Liverpool to title glory last season, making rash decisions and generally toiling to cover open space in opening transition. —Graham Ruthven, Forbes.com, 26 Aug. 2025

The son of a tugboat stoker for the merchant Navy, Stamp spent years toiling in the swinging 1960s' rising advertising industry before winning a scholarship to undergo classical training at the prestigious Webber Douglas Academy of Dramatic Art. —Ryan Coleman Updated, EW.com, 17 Aug. 2025