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hamster wheeling

hamster wheeling is the present participle and gerund of hamster wheel.

Meaning of hamster wheel

Verb

hamster wheel (third-person singular simple present hamster wheels, present participle hamster wheeling, simple past and past participle hamster wheeled)

  1. (idiomatic, informal, intransitive) To cycle fruitlessly.
    • I was shocked that I'd forgotten about the game that morning, but my mind had hamster-wheeled around for hours during the night, long after I should have been asleep.2015, Patti Grayson, Ghost Most Foul, page 111

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Questions about hamster wheeling

What is hamster wheeling the present participle and gerund of?
Hamster wheeling is the present participle and gerund of hamster wheel.

Words near hamster wheeling in the dictionary

  1. hamster ball
  2. hamster balls
  3. hamster style
  4. hamster wheel
  5. hamster wheeled
  6. hamster wheeling
  7. hamster wheels
  8. hamster-wheel
  9. hamster-wheeled
  10. hamster-wheeling
  11. hamster-wheels

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Adapted from Wiktionary: hamster wheeling (page history and authors); hamster wheel (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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