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===Nomenclature===
The official Apple Human Interface Guidelines refers to this cursor as the "spinning wait cursor". Some Mac users often refer to the colorful wait cursor by a variety of more creative names, for example "the spinning beach ball of death" (a reference to [[Microsoft Windows|Windows]] [[Blue Screen of Death]]), "the spinning pizza of death" or just "SPOD". Other names include the [[Catherine Wheel]], a medieval torture device (aka:[[Breaking wheel]]) a bit extreme but waiting ''is'' after all waiting.
An application showing this cursor can be said to be "beachballing", as in "Safari is beachballing me, give me a sec".
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