Juliana Hatfield

Playing a show is a monumental hassle. You've got to schlep all your heavy equipment into the van, then you've got to drive for five hours, then you have to schlep all the heavy equipment out of the van, onto the stage, set it up, do the sound check, hang around for three hours, then play the show, which is incredibly draining.

American Musician

Ken Goldberg

The Web meant that I didn't have to schlep a whole bunch of stuff to a museum and fight with all their constraints and make something that, in the end, only 150 people would actually get out to see. Instead, I could put something together in my lab and make it accessible to the world.

American Educator

Caroline Knapp

The clothes are different: pre-dog, I used to be very finicky and self-conscious about how I looked; now I schlep around in the worst clothing - big heavy boots, baggy old sweaters, a hooded down parka from L.L. Bean that makes me look like an astronaut.

American Writer

Nina Garcia

Working from home or going on maternity leave is no excuse to let go of your look. The more you schlep around in drawstring pants and tees, the less you're going to be able to pull yourself together when necessary.

Colombian Critic

Helen Gurley Brown

Nearly every glamorous, wealthy, successful career woman you might envy now started out as some kind of schlep.

American Editor

Ellen Muth

Oh, she didn't schlep me. I schlepped her, actually. I was the one who wanted to be an actress.

American Actress

Used mostly in casual or informal settings, not in professional or formal contexts.

Informal Speech

Emphasizes the physical burden or hardship caused by carrying heavy items.

Physical Effort

Conveys a sense of frustration or inconvenience of moving something cumbersome.

Emotive Language

Highlights the weariness or difficulty of a long or burdensome journey.

Journey Struggle

Used when traveling without direct routes or conveniences, implying annoying detours.

Travel Inconvenience

The word often suggests that the journey was reluctantly undertaken, but deemed necessary.

Grudging Acceptance

Implies a negative feeling towards the effort involved in the journey.

Negative Undertone

 and any kind of public space would wave their hands if I would decide to do a last-minute, spontaneous, free gig. This is a library in Auckland. On Saturday I tweeted for this crate and hat, because I did not want to schlep them from the East Coast, and they showed up care of this dude, Chris, from Newport Beach, who says hello.

The art of asking PIPE...

 called night aunt spectacular mountain range was declared a protected area purely because of the existence of cheetahs there it was a whole team effort to find the right spots to set up the cameras and then it took a whole team to actually schlep in the rocks and

Schlep