Idle generally refers to

idleness Idleness is a lack of motion or energy. In describing a person, idle means the act of nothing or no work (for example: "John Smith is an idle person"). A person who spends his or her days doing nothing could be said to be "idly passing his or he ...

, a lack of motion or energy. Idle or ''idling'', may also refer to:

Technology

* Idle (engine), engine running without load ** Idle speed *

Idle (CPU) A computer processor is described as idle when it is not being used by any program. Every program or task that runs on a computer system occupies a certain amount of processing time on the CPU. If the CPU has completed all tasks it is idle. Mo ...

, CPU non-utilisation or low-priority mode ** Synchronous Idle (SYN), the idle command to synchronize terminals **

System Idle Process In Windows NT operating systems, the System Idle Process contains one or more kernel threads which run when no other runnable thread can be scheduled on a CPU. In a multiprocessor system, there is one idle thread associated with each CPU core. ...

* Idle (programming language), a dialect of

Lua Lua or LUA may refer to: Science and technology * Lua (programming language) * Latvia University of Agriculture * Last universal ancestor, in evolution Ethnicity and language * Lua people, of Laos * Lawa people, of Thailand sometimes referred t ...

* 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 Idle is a residential suburban area in the city of Bradford, West Yorkshire, in England and was a separate village, and before that it was the Manor of Idle. Idle is loosely bordered by the areas of Eccleshill, Wrose, Thackley, Apperley B ...

, UK; a suburb of Bradford, England **

Idle railway station Idle railway station was a railway station in Idle, West Yorkshire, England. History During the 1860s, two small railway companies were formed to promote suburban railways in Bradford Bradford is a city and the administrative centre ...

* Idle and Thackley, a ward in Bradford Metropolitan District in the county of West Yorkshire, England, UK **

Idle railway station (Leeds and Bradford Railway) Idle railway station was a short-lived station serving Idle, near Bradford, West Yorkshire, England. It was built by the Leeds and Bradford Railway in 1847, but it was closed the next year. It was located near the west entrance of the Thackley ...

* River Idle, a river flowing through Nottinghamshire, England

People

* Mrs. Idle (born 1940), a stagename for Australian actress Lyn Ashley *

Christopher Idle (politician) Christopher Idle (1771 – 8 March 1819) was a British politician. He was a Member of Parliament for Weymouth and Melcombe Regis from 1813 to 1818. Idle was born in Penrith, Cumbria, and was elected to parliament in a by-election on 9 June 1813 ...

(1771–1819), British politician *

Christopher Idle (hymnwriter) Christopher Martin Idle (born 11 September 1938) is a British hymnodist. Idle was born in Bromley, Kent, and studied at Eltham College, St Peter's College, Oxford, and Clifton Theological College, Bristol. He was ordained as a priest in the Ch ...

(born 1938), British hymnodist *

Eric Idle Eric Idle (born 29 March 1943) is an English actor, comedian, musician and writer. Idle was a member of the British surreal comedy group Monty Python and the parody rock band The Rutles, and is the writer of the music and lyrics for the Broadway ...

(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 game, another name for an

incremental game Incremental games, also known as clicker games, clicking games (on PCs) or tap games (in mobile games), are video games whose gameplay consists of the player performing simple actions such as clicking on the screen repeatedly. This " grinding" ea ...

Other uses

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