The Idler

Idler refers to someone or something idle:

• An idle game
• A slacker, a person who habitually avoids work
• Idler-wheel, a system used to transmit the rotation of the main shaft of a motor to another rotating device
• Idler circuit, a circuit in a parametric amplifier to generate an idle response

Idler or The Idler may also refer to:

Books and publications

• The Idler (1758–1760), series of essays by Samuel Johnson and his contemporaries
• The Idler (1892–1911), literary and humorous magazine started by Jerome K. Jerome
• The Idler (1993), bi-monthly British magazine exploring alternative ways of working and living
• The Idler (Canadian magazine), Canadian literary magazine published from 1985 to 1993
• The Idlers, 1906 novel by Morley Roberts

Music

• Idlers (Canadian band), a Canadian reggae band
• The Idlers, a United States Coast Guard Academy ensemble

Other uses

• Idler (yacht) American Yacht built in 1865 in Fairhaven, Connecticut
• An Idler, nom-de-plume of George Stillman Hillard (1808–1879)
• Salomon Idler (1610–1669), German shoemaker and aviation pioneer

See also

• All pages with titles containing idler or idlers
• All pages with titles beginning with The Idler
• All pages with titles beginning with Idler
• Idle (disambiguation)