strenuous

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You can choose to work longer hours at a startup, or spend time on strenuous hobbies.

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characterized by or performed with much energy or force; "strenuous exercise"

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adjective

characterized by or performed with much energy or force; "strenuous exercise"

adjective

taxing to the utmost; testing powers of endurance; "his final, straining burst of speed"; "a strenuous task"; "your willingness after these six arduous days to remain here"- F.D.Roosevelt

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Core meanings and parts of speech for strenuous.

adjective

characterized by or performed with much energy or force; "strenuous exercise"

adjective

taxing to the utmost; testing powers of endurance; "his final, straining burst of speed"; "a strenuous task"; "your willingness after these six arduous days to remain here"- F.D.Roosevelt

Example sentences

You can choose to work longer hours at a startup, or spend time on strenuous hobbies.

I only wish he was similarly strenuous in his interpretation of the 4th Amendment.

Wouldn't you want workers to be happier and thus more productive?Why do you seem to be implying that there is a moral highground to more strenuous and miserable work?

Several hundred thousand people from the US have recent experience working in 120-140F weather wearing 50-100 pounds of equipment and heavy clothing, often doing labor a bit more strenuous than pulling drives or racking servers.

It's not always a full-fledged fight-or-flight response, unless it's a quite strenuous type of exercise.> The first 20 minutes of moving around, if someone has been really sedentary, provide most of the health benefits.

If you could standardize introductory physics courses using these, I think it could help significantly, especially when people struggle to work out the curl of a cross product or some-such strenuous vector calculation.

Never performing strenuous activity that results in regenerative & anabolic processes, which require extra nutrients.

Mbellotti, in her post mentions that we took the RV to save money, which is true, however, as we started this project on a bus, under somewhat strenuous conditions we noticed that much like a hazing of sorts, the experience brought us, much closer together.