work,
toil, hard work, manual labor, efforts, employment, exertions, industry (formal
or literary), hard labor, blood, sweat, and tears
workers,
work force, employees, labor force, hands, staff, personnel, manual workers,
blue-collar workers, working class
antonym: management
childbirth,
delivery, giving birth, confinement (dated), contractions
task,
job, chore, effort, exertion, mission, duty, activity, occupation
struggle,
exert, grapple, wrestle, agonize
strive,
strain, grind away, endeavor (US, formal), keep at it, burn the candle at both
ends, toil, slog, sweat blood, work like a dog, break your back, sweat
(informal), struggle, plug away (informal)
antonym: laze
around
struggle,
complain, seize up, malfunction, falter, crash, strain, play up, stall
drag
yourself, stagger, struggle, plod, lumber (UK, informal), trudge, trail,
slog
antonym: skip
overemphasize,
go on, dwell on, exaggerate, drive home, overdo, stress, underline, accentuate,
belabor
antonym: skim