WordNet: Sisyphus
(Greek legend) a king in ancient Greece who offended Zeus and whose punishment was to roll a huge boulder to the top of a steep hill; each time the boulder neared the top it rolled back down and Sisyphus was forced to start again
- domain: region Ellas, Greece, Hellenic Republic
- domain: topic fable, legend
- instance hypernym mythical being
Sisyphus
- (englanti) Sisyphean (derivationally related)