backbreakers
Physically demanding jobs
Backbreakers are tasks or burdens so demanding they could figuratively break your back—exhausting physical labor or overwhelming challenges: Moving all that furniture up five flights was a backbreaker.
In wrestling, a backbreaker is a move where an opponent is dropped across the wrestler's knee or shoulder, bending the spine painfully.
Extremely tiring and demanding
- drainingDepleting one's reserves
- fatiguingCausing weariness or exhaustion
- taxingRequiring great effort
- arduousDemanding strenuous effort
strenuous · punishing · debilitating · enervating · sapping · wearying · tiring · crushing
Strenuous, prolonged effort
- drudgeryHard, boring work
- grindCrush into particles
- haulingTransporting heavy items
- diggingRemoving earth below
trenching · shoveling · masonry · carpentry · bricklaying · roofing · farmwork · harvest
Carried weight or burden
- weightMeasure of heaviness
- strainExcessive stretching force
- onusResponsibility one bears
- millstoneGrain-crushing circular stone
yoke · encumbrance · responsibility · obligation · albatross · heaviness · overload · shackle
grueling
Extremely tiring and demanding
- drainingDepleting one's reserves
- fatiguingCausing weariness or exhaustion
- taxingRequiring great effort
arduous · strenuous · punishing · debilitating · enervating · sapping · wearying · tiring · crushing · relentless
toil
Strenuous, prolonged effort
digging · trenching · shoveling · masonry · carpentry · bricklaying · roofing · farmwork · harvest · construction
load
Carried weight or burden
millstone · yoke · encumbrance · responsibility · obligation · albatross · heaviness · overload · shackle · liability
backbreakerscakewalks
Effortless wins or tasks
breeze · piece of cake · child's play · walkovers · pushover