slogging
Plodding through difficulty
Slogging is hard, steady, often tedious work or travel.
The word suggests persistence through difficulty rather than speed or grace: After hours of slogging through the mud, we reached camp.
In cricket and boxing, slogging means hitting hard and wildly.
The figurative sense dominates: slogging through paperwork, slogging away at a novel.
Strenuous, prolonged effort
- grindCrush into particles
- ploddingMoving slowly, heavily
- treadmillMotorized walking platform
- monotonyTiresome lack of change
tedium · routine · perseverance · persistence · dullness · repetition · workhorse · thankless
Extremely tiring and demanding
- exhaustingDepleting one's stamina
- backbreakingExtremely physically demanding
- strenuousRequiring intense exertion
- taxingRequiring great effort
punishing · laborious · toilsome · draining · fatiguing · demanding · tough · rigorous
toil
Strenuous, prolonged effort
monotony · tedium · routine · perseverance · persistence · dullness · repetition · workhorse · thankless · unrewarding
grueling
Extremely tiring and demanding
- exhaustingDepleting one's stamina
- backbreakingExtremely physically demanding
- strenuousRequiring intense exertion
taxing · punishing · laborious · toilsome · draining · fatiguing · demanding · tough · rigorous · wearisome
bog
Acidic peat wetland
marsh · sludge · ooze · muck · squelch · waterlogged · sodden · wet · slippery · ankle-deep
plod
Move slowly, heavily
lumber · stomp · shuffle · footslog · traipse · wade · drag · crawl · stagger · push on
- exertioneffort, straining, strain, heaving, labor
- laborlabor, labor union, work, labor force, laborers
- tenacitydetermined, persistence, persistent, perseverance, determination
- overexertionoverwork, burnout, overtraining, straining, overdrive
- persistingpersisting, persevering, persistence, perseverance, continuing