sufferfest

English

Alternative forms

• suffer-fest

Etymology

suffer +‎ -fest

Noun

sufferfest (plural sufferfests)

1. A workout or race in the arena of endurance sports that involves prolonged suffering on the part of all who participate.
2. (by extension) An activity in which all participants ache, agonize, ail, endure.
   • 2012, Owen West, The Snake Eaters: An Unlikely Band of Brothers and the Battle for the Soul of Iraq‎^[1]:

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