diff --git a/docs/changelog.rst b/docs/changelog.rst
index c8f136d54..522d81476 100644
--- a/docs/changelog.rst
+++ b/docs/changelog.rst
@@ -53,6 +53,8 @@ Detailed list of changes
 
 - Bash integration: Fix ``clone-in-kitty`` not working on bash >= 5.2 if environment variable values contain newlines or other special characters (:iss:`5629`)
 
+- A new :ac:`sleep` action useful in combine based mappings to make kitty sleep before executing the next action
+
 
 0.26.5 [2022-11-07]
 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
diff --git a/kitty/boss.py b/kitty/boss.py
index 1862acb8d..ab078bd33 100644
--- a/kitty/boss.py
+++ b/kitty/boss.py
@@ -10,7 +10,7 @@ import sys
 from contextlib import suppress
 from functools import partial
 from gettext import gettext as _
-from time import monotonic
+from time import monotonic, sleep
 from typing import (
     TYPE_CHECKING, Any, Callable, Container, Dict, Iterable, Iterator, List, Optional,
     Set, Tuple, Union,
@@ -1774,6 +1774,10 @@ class Boss:
             else:
                 doit()
 
+    @ac('misc', 'Sleep for the specified time period')
+    def sleep(self, sleep_time: float) -> None:
+        sleep(sleep_time)
+
     @ac('misc', 'Click a URL using the keyboard')
     def open_url_with_hints(self) -> None:
         self.run_kitten_with_metadata('hints')
diff --git a/kitty/options/utils.py b/kitty/options/utils.py
index 64d2400f2..0d5d27009 100644
--- a/kitty/options/utils.py
+++ b/kitty/options/utils.py
@@ -293,6 +293,15 @@ def single_integer_arg(func: str, rest: str) -> FuncArgsType:
     return func, [num]
 
 
+@func_with_args('sleep')
+def sleep(func: str, sleep_time: str) -> FuncArgsType:
+    mult = 1
+    if sleep_time[-1] in 'shmd':
+        mult = {'s': 1, 'm': 60, 'h': 3600, 'd': 24 * 3600}[sleep_time[-1]]
+        sleep_time = sleep_time[:-1]
+    return func, [abs(float(sleep_time)) * mult]
+
+
 @func_with_args('disable_ligatures_in')
 def disable_ligatures_in(func: str, rest: str) -> FuncArgsType:
     parts = rest.split(maxsplit=1)