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Treadmill effect

When a blazed person walks outdoors and it appears that buildings are coming towards him/her rather than him/her walking towards the buildings. This gives the illusion that the earth is a huge treadmill and the person is not moving from where he/her is walking.
Person A - God damn! it seems like the movie theaters is coming towards me even tho I'm walking towards it.

Person B - It's the treadmill effect.
by RJ1992 April 20, 2009
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treadmilling

Staying busy but not really making any progress on a particular project, goal, career or life in general.
I'm treadmilling at work and really need to find a new job.
by WholeLottaHmmm April 12, 2010
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treadmill

1. A gym machine used to keep fit.

2. a suggestive word often used by mothers to their kids to get off the internet, quit webcamming and being a luvoe and get on the damn treadmill, and start sweating it off.
"ahh marcie alis ka nga dyan, at mag treadmill ka naman, webcam na webcam ka dyan eh"

translates: " ahhh marcie get out of here, and get on the bloody treadmill will ya you sheila and get off the damn webcam"
by m0oks March 17, 2008
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Treadmill Karaoke

When obliviously lip synching along to an mp3 player mid treadmill session progresses to belting out a line or a whole tune in a busy gym environment.

The Treadmill Karaoke-er may be oblivious to their faux pas, and may result in declarations of love, hate or violence to other gym users depending on musical preference.
Dude 1: Did that girl on the treadmill just ask me to put my hands up if I'm in love?

Dude 2: Hmmm, I think she's just doing some treadmill karaoke to JLS
by swallmeister December 30, 2010
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Treadmilling

The feeling you have in the morning after a night of intense alcohol consumption, while you are trying to walk somewhere. You feel as if you are walking on a treadmill without any thought-process at all, and stopping requires a lot of effort.
Jared: "Brandon, are we treadmilling again!?"
Brandon: "Oh I just noticed, you're right."
Jared: "Hopefully we recover before we get to the bakery so we can stop for a feed".
by Dbjawz June 22, 2012
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Treadmill Talk

The effort of actions and identification of action items discussed during business meetings that can be strategically displaced using a collection of ‘good old boy’ ambiguous superfluous rhetoric.
During our Pipeline call, Bill used a lot of Treadmill Talk to help take some of the heat off our region for not hitting our quarterly budget.
by bankz316 May 17, 2017
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Treadmill High

n. The effect that occurs shortly after finishing a treadmill workout, in which, after running in place for a long period of time, walking on static ground gives the sensation that you're body is moving twice as fast as you're walking. Often causes sufferer to walk abnormally slow or, in hilarious cases, fall down. Usually experienced by those who do not use a treadmill often.
After using the treadmill for an hour, Jack had a treadmill high and, in an attempt to slow down, stumbled on his way to the locker room.
by lingojac September 28, 2009
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