A few gestural conventions have become widespread, including the drag and drop gesture, in which:

The user presses the mouse button while the mouse cursor hovers over an interface object

The user moves the cursor to a different location while holding the button down

The user releases the mouse button

For example, a user might drag-and-drop a picture representing a file onto a picture of a trash can, thus instructing the system to delete the file.

Standard semantic gestures include:

Crossing-based goal

Drag and drop

Menu traversal

Pointing

Rollover

Selection.