1. (of movement) slow and laborious
   "plodding steps";
   - leaden

1. The act of walking with a slow heavy gait
   "I could recognize his plodding anywhere";
   - plod
    
2. Hard monotonous routine work
   "The data entry job involved hours of plodding";
   - drudgery, grind, donkeywork [informal]

1. Walk heavily and firmly, as when weary, or through mud
   "Mules plodded in a circle around a grindstone";
   - slog, footslog, trudge, pad, tramp, tromp [N. Amer, informal], trog [Brit, informal]

Derived forms: ploddings

See also: effortful

Type of: labor [US], labour [Brit, Cdn], toil, walk, walking

Encyclopedia: Plod