the throbber is an "animated icon that notifies the user that an operation is taking place in the background, such as when an application is loading or a Web page is downloading." "Typically a ...

All of this is to say, the spinning-loading wheel that appears on computers is unbelievably called a ‘throbber’. According to the PCMag encyclopaedia, a throbber is: “An animated icon that ...

you’ll see a new loading bar icon that consists of the familiar YouTube play-head and a red progress bar. This gives way to an animated YouTube logo that slides in with the aforementioned play ...

The new Google Messages icon is now available on the web with a rather nice animated splash screen. Like Gmail, Messages is one of the few Google apps to feature an animated splash screen for its ...