Rest

Rest or REST may refer to:

Relief from activity

 * Sleep
 * Bed rest
 * Kneeling
 * Lying (position)
 * Sitting
 * Squatting position

Structural support

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

Music

 * Rest (music), a silence in a piece of music
 * Rest (band), Irish instrumental doom metal band
 * Rest (Gregor Samsa album), 2008
 * Rest (Charlotte Gainsbourg album), 2017
 * "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 organisations

 * Relief Society of Tigray, an NGO in Ethiopia
 * Rest (superannuation fund), an Australian industry superannuation fund

Places

 * Rest, Kansas, U.S.
 * Rest, Virginia, U.S.

Science and technology

 * Representational state transfer, a software architectural style
 * 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