The phrase "a repetitive task" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it to describe a job or activity that involves doing the same thing over and over again.
Example: "Filing paperwork can be a repetitive task that requires a lot of patience and attention to detail."
Alternatives: "a monotonous task" or "a redundant task."
Schilling filled the orders, pouring each one with a measuring cup, eight hours a day, the easy rhythm of a repetitive task, fuelled by vast quantities of marijuana.
In one sense, the brain could be trying to economise during a repetitive task by shifting resources to the default mode.
Work songs sung on the job usually are intended to relieve the boredom of a repetitive task or to increase efficiency by maintaining a regular rhythm.
In a fascinating experiment at the University of Limerick a few years ago, participants were first bored witless by being made to do a repetitive task and then asked to suggest punishments for an imaginary Englishman convicted of beating up an Irishman.
This definition does not include machines that just execute a repetitive task, or require full remote control.
The study, done by researchers Don J.Q. Chen and Vivien K.G Lim, started out with participants doing a repetitive task: highlighting every "e" in a 3500-word document.
Thus, aging was a co-factor to a repetitive task-induced serum inflammatory response, but grip strength was apparently affected by factors other than circulating levels of pro-inflammatory cytokines.
It's a perfect depiction of a disparate group thrown together in a small room, given a boring, repetitive task, and struggling desperately for human connection.
The treadmill is usually defined as playing a game that requires minimal skill, doing a fairly repetitive task over and over again in order to receive arbitrary rewards and climb higher up a ladder.
Just as Ford's assembly lines a century ago brought work to workers who performed a single, repetitive task, Microtask's software, via the Internet, does the same.
The technique consisted of two basic elements: a conveyor system and the limitation of each worker to a single repetitive task.
