0 present participle of trudge
1 to walk slowly with a lot of effort, especially over a difficult surface or while carrying something heavy:
Coming away from a meeting in the afternoon, we overtook a dear old lady who was trudging along.
It struck me that he could be best described as a man trudging a tightrope with heavy boots.
I know from trudging the streets, not to collect votes, but visiting primary schools and parents with problems, that intense housing problems exist there.
We were treated, once again, like a train of pack mules trudging our way through the sands of time.
I remember a man who came to me with a packet of biscuits which he had carried while trudging through half a mile of water.
It is not a happy sight to see them trudging along the streets, bewildered and seeking somewhere to stay.
Then we saw idle mines and thousands who had been unemployed for years trudging along the streets.
Now, though, we have to start trudging across the flatlands of day-to-day life.