What do you call an action that denotes hard work?

Question

When you do something that requires courage they call it an heroic act or an act of courage. What about something that requires hard work?

Example:

In this digital age, getting your ass off the seat and walking to a physical location of the place is considered a [...].

Answer 1

Perhaps you can use arduous, onerous or strenous task. BBKing's laborious task or Josh61 toil are also good ones in my opinion (+1).

In line with you heroic, perhaps you can also use herculean task as in "requiring tremendous effort"

Answer 2

Getting your ass off the seat and walk[ing] to the physical location of the place is considered:

• an effort
• a feat
• an endeavor
• a struggle
• a travail

Answer 3

A term with a strong connotation is toil :

• exhausting labor or effort.

• a task performed by such effort.

• An example of toil is labor in a field or a factory for 10 hours a day.

  • In this digital age, getting your ass off the seat and walk to the physical location of the place is considered hard toil.

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Answer 4

Laborious?

Derived from the word "labour", meaning work.

A "laborious task" would be considered hard work, complex, detailed or something that requires a lot of concentration or physical work.

Answer 5

If you wanted to jokingly say that it required very hard work you could say

a labour of Hercules: a very difficult task

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Answer 6

If you want to give a "burden" connotation to the word, you may call the task a chore.

A chore is a duty or task you’re obligated to perform, often one that is unpleasant but necessary. Washing the dishes is a chore, and so is completing a homework assignment you aren’t excited about.