Idle

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

Music

 * Idle, a 2000 demo album by the band Daylight Dies

Video games

 * Idle game, another name for an incremental game



Other uses

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