- Laborious
- Needing protracted effort
- Rising
- Skyward
- Upwards on, or as on, a hillside; as, to walk uphill.
- Ascending; going up; as, an uphill road.
- Attended with labor; difficult; as, uphill work.
- Demanding former thespian career
- Enforcing (payment)
- Former spouse on stage is quite demanding
- Laborious
- Making great demands on
- Making rigorous or excessive demands
- Physically demanding
- Backbreaking
- Debar duo - usual inclusion is difficult
- Debar duo – usual inclusion difficult to accomplish
- Difficult to accomplish
- Difficult to achieve
- Hard to climb
- Laborious
- Hard labour
- Laborious toil
- Labour pains
- Pain of childbirth
- Painful exertion
- Trail outside Virginia is hard work
- Labor with pain; severe toil or exertion.