as in routine
an established and often automatic or monotonous series of actions followed when engaging in some activity
the treadmill of the morning commute to work
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Recent Examples of treadmill
On a treadmill walk, Meta AI on the Vanguards could answer questions, for example, about current heart rate and the length of the exercise.
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Clare Duffy, CNN Money, 18 Sep. 2025
Hofland took him to the Perham Area Community Center or CrossFit to use the stair stepper and treadmill.
—Barbie Porter, Twin Cities, 18 Sep. 2025
My fitness center has three rows of treadmills and ellipticals.
—Jeanne Phillips, Mercury News, 17 Sep. 2025
Engineers fitted the full-sized robot with running shoes before sending it onto a 3D force treadmill and a 200-meter indoor track.
—Aamir Khollam, Interesting Engineering, 16 Sep. 2025
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Clare Duffy, CNN Money, 18 Sep. 2025
Hofland took him to the Perham Area Community Center or CrossFit to use the stair stepper and treadmill.
—Barbie Porter, Twin Cities, 18 Sep. 2025
My fitness center has three rows of treadmills and ellipticals.
—Jeanne Phillips, Mercury News, 17 Sep. 2025
Engineers fitted the full-sized robot with running shoes before sending it onto a 3D force treadmill and a 200-meter indoor track.
—Aamir Khollam, Interesting Engineering, 16 Sep. 2025
See All Example Sentences for treadmill
Recent Examples of Synonyms for treadmill
Noun
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Sadly, the effort to relocate those mice turned out to be a daily routine with no foreseeable end.—
Irv Erdos,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
26 Sep. 2025
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Yet unlike romantic relationships (which most people naturally weave into their daily routines), our platonic ones rarely get that same kind of priority.—
Jenna Ryu,
SELF,
26 Sep. 2025
Noun
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And the day in, day out grind and all.—
David O'Brien,
New York Times,
1 Oct. 2025
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Advertisement All of that was just the physical grind.—
JP Mangalindan,
Time,
30 Sep. 2025
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“Treadmill.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/treadmill. Accessed 2 Oct. 2025.
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