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
  • I-dle, a South Korean girl group

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<!-- redirect target fails WP:MENTION -->

See also

  • Adle
  • Christopher Idle (disambiguation)
  • Ideal (disambiguation)
  • Idel (disambiguation)
  • Idle Hour (disambiguation)
  • Idler (disambiguation)
  • Idles (disambiguation)
  • Idol (disambiguation)
  • Idyl (disambiguation)