The phrase "avoid gruelling" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when discussing the desire to steer clear of difficult or exhausting tasks or experiences.
Example: "To maintain a healthy work-life balance, it's important to avoid gruelling schedules that lead to burnout."
Alternatives: "steer clear of exhausting" or "prevent taxing".
Nurse Phyllis Hunt had recently transferred from the emergency room to the outpatients' clinic to avoid the gruelling night shifts, but during her lunch break on 22 November, she popped across to see an old colleague.
Precisely because it is reasonable to jump to avoid the gruelling business of dying, a good death would soon be seen as unreasonable – and services and budgets adjusted accordingly.
He is in truth a fairly liberal Democrat, who ran as a Republican merely to avoid a gruelling Democratic primary.Some will try to play the revenge card: after the Republicans' victories in the White House and Congress last year, New Yorkers who are overwhelmingly Democrats will be invited to show their disapproval of Mr Bush by voting out the local Republican.
"For some HER2 positive breast cancer patients the effect of this drug combination will be amazing and mean they can avoid chemotherapy and its gruelling side effects completely.
Marks narrowly missed a massive brawl once in a town near Sparwood, BC, by staying in to avoid having to do 12 gruelling hours climbing mountains with a hangover.
While the film-makers are clearly keen to pay tribute to the heroism of those involved, the film itself wisely avoids glib romanticism, opting instead for gruelling realism.
Several EU countries, including France, Ireland and the Netherlands, want avoid any reopening, since it could trigger years of gruelling brinkmanship resulting in the need for national referendums on a new dispensation.
Though the PSOE has avoided the plight of Greece's Pasok socialist party, its internal divisions have been gruelling.
In fact Greeks cannot avoid austerity, either within the euro or outside it.It is true that Greece can survive within the euro only with a gruelling downward adjustment of wages and prices, which demands painful budget cuts and structural reforms.
The training was gruelling.
