THESAURUS
rat race
Charybdis, absurdity, aimlessness, bootlessness, busyness, dirty work, dizzy round, donkeywork, drudgery, eddy, employment, emptiness, fag, fatigue, fatuity, fecklessness, fruitlessness, futility, grind, gurge, gyre, handiwork, handwork, hollowness, impotence, inanity, industry, ineffectiveness, ineffectuality, inefficacy, labor, lick, lick of work, maelstrom, manual labor, meaninglessness, moil, nugacity, otiosity, pirouette, plenty to do, pointlessness, press of business, profitlessness, purposelessness, reel, round, scut work, slavery, spadework, spin, stroke, stroke of work, surge, sweat, swirl, task, the absurd, the
rat race, tiresome work, toil, travail, treadmill, triviality, turn, twirl, unproductiveness, unprofitability, unprofitableness, valuelessness, vanity, vicious circle, vortex, wheel, whirl, whirlpool, whirlwind, work, worthlessness
