Synonyms for rat race
rat race

Princeton's WordNet

1. rat racenoun

   an exhausting routine that leaves no time for relaxation

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1. • Routine

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1. Todd Fisher:

   He had just moved in, and he was showing us around the house, i had just gotten to town and, being a teenager, he assumed that Carrie Fisher and I were smoking a little pot … So he puts his arm around me and he goes, ‘ Hey, man. ’ Puts a couple joints in my pocket, and he goes, ‘ Do n’t go to strangers. ’ I ’d only known him from the movies. I was a little kid when he made the movie ‘ The Rat Race ’ with my mother, and nobody was even thinking in these terms … At that moment, my mother did n’t know Carrie Fisher and I were smoking pot at all. He was even kind of hiding it from her. So it was a little bit of a revelation.

2. Andrew Schneider:

   I'm grateful to you. If it weren't for you, I'd be in Cicely right now and I'd still be running that rat race, still locked in that commute. I'd be totally stressed, I'd be totally ignorant of what my life could be. I'm happier now than I've ever been.

3. Darryl Clinton:

   I don't really want to be in the whole rat race thing, and I can escape that here.

4. Michael Tubbs:

   I think it will make people work better and smarter and harder and also be able to do things like spend time with their families because we're not robots. We're not just designed just to work all day and run a rat race.

5. Eric Trump:

   When you're in this rat race for the presidential election, that's a very tough thing, he's set his life aside to do something he believes in. ... It's a very selfless act.