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WORDNET DICTIONARY

Noun rat race has 1 sense

• rat race(n = noun.act) - an exhausting routine that leaves no time for relaxation;
is a kind of modus operandi, routine

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

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