treading water Definition

floundering, rudderless, choppy, becalmed, directionless, wallowing, panicking, stagnant, doldrums, stagnating, sinking, afloat, flailing, sideways, flatline, drifting, bobbing, dire straits, quicksand, buoy, retrenching, stuck, languishing, regressing, limbo, life preserver, clinging, struggling, inching, hovering, wobbling, slipping, foundering, gasping, exhaling, overbought, muddling, biding, sluggish, slog, listless, teetering, clawing, buoyant, overextended, faring, limp, falter, rut, adrift, mediocre, moribund, plateauing, imploding, propping, beached, thereabouts, lows, grasping, swimming, exhausted, trailing, lethargic, lurching, mired, falling, desperate straits, bottoming, paddling, righted, still, perking, bouncing, dive, downtrend, stumbling, peaking, catchup, steadying, chasing, riptide, weak, resuscitate, lifeless, ebb tide, oversold, indecisive, leaderless, drowning, shuffling, flattish, retreating, blip, hamstrung, receding, sidestroke, coasting, consolidative, slouches, laggard,