Steering with your feet ?

[Losmaxos]

Hello everyone,

I'm no pilot at all and have the following simple question:
in usual commercial passenger planes (such as Boeing 737 for example),
do the pilots use their feet in any way to control the aircraft?
(I mean, in any way similar to working gas and brake in a car)
Or can the feet remain more or less idle?
Any ideas why this is so?

Thanks in advance, all comments appreciated :-)