(transitive) To spend in idleness; to waste; to consume. / (intransitive) To lose or spend time doing nothing, or without being employed in business.

The state of being idle; inactivity. / The state of being indolent; indolence. / Groundlessness; worthlessness; triviality; vanity; frivolity.

Third-person singular simple present indicative form of idle

present participle of idle

An idle period; something done idly.

simple past tense and past participle of idle

(engineering) A wheel placed between two others to transfer motion from one to the other without changing the direction.

plural of idle wheel

plural of idle game

A video game whose gameplay consists of the player performing simple actions (such as clicking on the screen) repeatedly in order to progress, usually with additional elements to increase the rate of progress.