Peg comes in to work hard, showing some inclination (7)
I believe the answer is:
sloping
'showing some inclination' is the definition.
The definition and answer can be both to do with motion as well as being present participle verbs.
Maybe you can see an association between them that I don't see?
'peg comes in to work hard' is the wordplay.
'peg' becomes 'pin' (synonyms).
'comes in to' indicates putting letters inside.
'work hard' becomes 'slog' (slog can mean to work very hard).
'pin' put into 'slog' is 'SLOPING'.
Can you help me to learn more?
(Other definitions for sloping that I've seen before include "Inclined" , "Slanting" , "Moving aimlessly" , "Leaning" .)