Take a 50-kg object (110 pounds) and carry it in your arms for an hour on a flat road.  You will have done no work against gravity.    You may complain that this is not how the word &quot;work&quot; is used in everyday life - and that you will have done a lot of &quot;work&quot; against gravity (preventing the object from falling to the ground).  However, if you wish to discuss Physics and Mathematics, using terms that have precise definitions in those fields, you cannot object on the basis that these words do not have the same meaning as non-Physicist and non-Mathematicians ascribe to them.