Rest or REST may refer to:

Relief from activity

  • Sleep
  • Bed rest
  • Break (work)
  • Kneeling
  • Lying (position)
  • Sitting
  • Squatting position

Structural support

  • Structural support
  • Rest (cue sports)
  • Armrest
  • Headrest
  • Footrest

Arts and entertainment

Music

  • Rest (music), a silence in a piece of music
  • Rest (Gregor Samsa album), 2008
  • Rest (Charlotte Gainsbourg album), 2017
  • "Rest", a 2023 song by Foo Fighters from But Here We Are
  • "Rest", a 1990 song by Green Day from 39/Smooth
  • "Rest", a 2014 song by Kutless from Glory
  • "Rest", a 2015 song by Matt Maher from Saints and Sinners
  • "Rest", a 2012 song by Michael Kiwanuka from Home Again
  • "Rest", a 2000 song by Skillet from Invincible
  • "Rest", a 2009 song by The Temper Trap from Conditions
  • "Rest", tune name for a setting of "Dear Lord and Father of Mankind"

Painting

  • Repose (painting), by Manet, c.1871
  • Le Repos (Picasso), 1932
  • Rest (Bouguereau), 1879

Businesses and organizations

  • Relief Society of Tigray, an NGO in Ethiopia
  • Rest Super, an Australian industry superannuation fund

Places

  • Rest, Kansas, U.S.
  • Rest, Virginia, U.S.

Science and technology

  • Representational State Transfer (REST or RESTful), architectural style for APIs
  • Restricted Environmental Stimulation Technique, the deliberate reduction or removal of stimuli from one or more of the senses
  • reStructuredText, a lightweight markup language for Python
  • RE1-silencing transcription factor, a protein encoded by the REST gene

Other uses

  • Rest (finance), a financial terminology
  • Rest (physics), related to inertia
  • Revised Extended Standard Theory, a theory of linguistic competence developed by Noam Chomsky
  • James Rest (died 1999), American psychologist

See also

  • Restaurant (disambiguation)
  • Rest stop (disambiguation)
  • Death
  • Leisure
  • Relaxation technique