lung-busting
Adjective
Meaning
lung-busting (comparative more lung-busting, superlative most lung-busting)
(colloquial) exhausting, causing someone to be out of breath.
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Examples
If all that sounds like a little bit too much, the Scenic Sportive is also spectacular without being quite so lung-busting.
Burning 800 calories an hour for a typical man, it would take more than four lung-busting 90 minutes of 11-a-side football to exercise off the Christmas bulge.