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

See also

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