0 a wheel fixed in position in the middle, designed for a hamster or other small animal to run round and round inside as exercise:
The act included a boy running on the outside of what looked like a hamster wheel.
He is on the perpetual hamster wheel of the corporate lecture circuit.
Most physicians right now are on a hamster wheel. They have trouble keeping up.
It just seems like we're stuck on this hamster wheel of, you get a big fire, you put all kinds of resources on it, and then basically pray for the weather to change.