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hamster wheel
[ham-ster hweel, weel]
noun
a cylindrical framework, usually within a cage, that is rotated by a hamster or other small animal running inside of it.
any situation that seems to be endlessly without goal or achievement.
51Թ History and Origins
Origin of hamster wheel1
Example Sentences
In 2014, Ukraine's Mariya Yaremchuk trapped one of her dancers in a giant hamster wheel, while Romania brought a literal cannon to their performance in 2017.
He is richer than any person has ever been, but he has trapped himself on a golden hamster wheel.
To disrupt the first part of this pathway, try to halt the hamster wheel in your head.
This, too, is an authoritarian's dream: people who exhaust all their emotions on an endless hamster wheel of random strangers, while becoming further disconnected from investment in their real-world community.
“I could not continue to do this hamster wheel forever,” Diana said.
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