balancing actnoun [ C usually singular ]
uk/ˈbæl.ən.sɪŋ ˌækt/us/ˈbæl.ən.sɪŋ ˌækt/a situation in which a person tries to give care and attention to two or more activities at the same time:
I found myself having to do a balancing act between work and family.
Thesaurus: synonyms and related words
Coping and not coping
- be left holding the baby idiom
- bear up
- bite
- bite off more than you can chew idiom
- buckle
- cut
- head
- hold
- keep the wolf from the door idiom
- keep your head above water idiom
- keep/hold your end up idiom
- live (from) hand to mouth idiom
- live to fight another day idiom
- manage
- roll
- stride
- subsist
- subsistence
- take sth in your stride idiom
- wolf
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