Maybe it can be chores

assignment, attempt, commission, daily grind, drudge, drudgery, effort, elbow grease, endeavor, exertion, functioning, grind, grindstone, industry, job, moil, muscle, obligation, pains, performance, production, push, salt mines, servitude, slogging, stint, stress, striving, struggle, sweat*, task, toil, travail, trial, trouble, undertaking

endeavor, labor, toil, exert, travail, effort.

moil

exertion, occupation, moil

To dig; to open (the ground) as with a spade., To dig into; to penetrate; to trace out; to fathom., To dig or labor with a spade, or as with a spade; to labor as a drudge., A place dug; a pit; a ditch; a den; a cave.