sufferfest

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noun

A workout or race in the arena of endurance sports that involves prolonged suffering on the part of all who participate.

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Meanings

nounsufferfest (plural sufferfests)

plural sufferfests · alternative suffer-fest

  1. A workout or race in the arena of endurance sports that involves prolonged suffering on the part of all who participate.
  2. broadlyAn activity in which all participants ache, agonize, ail, endure.

    And if that happened, they were in for a year-long sufferfest.

    2012, Owen West, The Snake Eaters: An Unlikely Band of Brothers and the Battle for the Soul of Iraq

Origin

From suffer + -fest.

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APA

sufferfest. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 4, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/sufferfest

MLA

“sufferfest.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/sufferfest. Accessed November 4, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “sufferfest,” accessed November 4, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/sufferfest.

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