Treadmill (disambiguation)

A treadmill is an exercise machine for running or walking while staying in one place

Treadmill or treadmilling may also refer to:

Devices

  • Hamster treadmill, a wheel found in a rodent's cage
  • Omnidirectional treadmill, a device that allows a person to perform locomotive motion in any direction
  • Penal treadmill, a treadmill that was used to extract labor from prisoners in Victorian prisons

Science

  • Euphemism treadmill, in sociolinguistics the tendency for euphemisms to become dysphemisms
  • Hedonic treadmill, in positive psychology the tendency of a person to remain at a relatively stable level of happiness despite changes in fortune or the achievement of major goals
  • Treadmilling, in molecular biology a phenomenon observed in many cellular cytoskeletal filaments

Places

  • Treadmill Ridge, a mountain located on the border of Alberta and British Columbia

Fiction

  • Cosmic treadmill, a fictional time travel device in the DC Comics universe
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See also

  • Readmill, an ereader app available February 2011-July 2014
  • Treadwheel
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