slog

it would be a hard slog back to the camp.

a slog hit the fielder on the helmet.

an 18-hour slog in the hay fields.

a student's weary slog through Cicero; a slog through miles of jungle.

The two teams will slog it out for second place.

batsmen careering down the pitch to slog the ball up in the air.

slog across the swamp; slogged through both volumes.

Still Captain Buller broke a window in the Kildare street club with a slog to square leg.