Idle

Look up idle in Wiktionary, the free dictionary.

Idle generally refers to idleness, a lack of motion or energy.

Idle or idling, may also refer to:

Technology

Idle (engine), engine running without load
- Idle speed
Idle (CPU), CPU non-utilisation or low-priority mode
- Synchronous Idle (SYN), the idle command to synchronize terminals
- System Idle Process
Idle (programming language), a dialect of Lua
IDLE, an integrated development environment for the Python programming language
IMAP IDLE, an IMAP feature where an email server actively notifies a client application when new mail has arrived

Places

Idle (GNR) railway station, in Idle, West Yorkshire
Idle (L&BR) railway station, in Idle, West Yorkshire
Idle, West Yorkshire, UK; a suburb of Bradford, England
- Idle railway station
Idle and Thackley, a ward in Bradford Metropolitan District in the county of West Yorkshire, England, UK
- Idle railway station (Leeds and Bradford Railway)
River Idle, a river flowing through Nottinghamshire, England

People

Mrs. Idle (born 1940), a stagename for Australian actress Lyn Ashley
Christopher Idle (politician) (1771–1819), British politician
Christopher Idle (hymnwriter) (born 1938), British hymnodist
Eric Idle (born 1943), a comedian, sketch writer, and actor, member of Monty Python
Graham Idle (born 1950), British rugby footballer

Entertainment

Music

Idle, a 2000 demo album by the band Daylight Dies

Video games

IDLE, a group of characters in the 2024 Nintendo Switch game Mario & Luigi: Brothership
Idle game, another name for an incremental game

Other uses

Indolent lesions of epithelial origin (IDLE), a classification of cancers

See also

Search for "idle" on Wikipedia.

This disambiguation page lists articles associated with the title Idle.
If an internal link led you here, you may wish to change the link to point directly to the intended article.