Quick, as an adjective, refers to something moving with high

speed In everyday use and in kinematics, the speed (commonly referred to as ''v'') of an object is the magnitude of the change of its position over time or the magnitude of the change of its position per unit of time; it is thus a scalar quantity ...

. Quick may also refer to:

In business

* Quick (restaurant), a Belgian fast-food restaurant chain * Quick (sportswear), a Dutch manufacturer of sportswear *

Quick (automobile) The Quick was a Veteran Era American automobile produced from 1899 to 1900 in Patterson and Newark, New Jersey. History H. M. Quick developed the two-seat runabout over a two-year period. F. A. Phelps, Jr. developed the horizontal two-cylin ...

, an early American automobile * QIC (data backup) Quarter inch Cartridge, pronounced quick

Music

The Quick (U.S. band) The Quick were a mid-1970s power pop band based in Los Angeles. The Quick were influenced by 1960s British Invasion bands and 1970s British glam bands, as well as by fellow Angelenos Sparks (formerly Halfnelson). History In Los Angeles, between ...

, a rock band from Los Angeles * The Quick (UK band), a pop band from England * Quick (dance group), a hip hop dance group * ''Quick'' (album), a 1994 independently released album by Far

Films

* ''Quick'' (1932 film), German film starring Lilian Harvey * ''Quick'' (1993 film), American crime film starring

Teri Polo Theresa Elizabeth Polo (born June 1, 1969) is an American actress. She starred as Pam Byrnes-Focker in the ''Meet the Parents'' trilogy and played the role of police officer Stef Adams Foster in the Freeform series '' The Fosters'' (2013–201 ...

* ''Quick'' (2011 film), South Korean film * ''Quick'' (2019 film),, also known as ''The Perfect Patient'', Swedish film

Publications

* ''Quick'' (German magazine), published 1948–1992 * ''Quick'' (newspaper), a defunct free weekly tabloid in the Dallas-Fort Worth area from 2003 to 2011

In sports

* AHC Quick, also known as Quick Amsterdam, a baseball and softball club based in Amsterdam, the Netherlands * Quick 1888, also known as Quick Nijmegen, an amateur sporting club from Nijmegen, the Netherlands * Colloquial term for a

fast bowler Fast bowling (also referred to as pace bowling) is one of two main approaches to bowling in the sport of cricket, the other being spin bowling. Practitioners of pace bowling are usually known as ''fast'' bowlers, ''quicks'', or ''pacemen''. T ...

in cricket

People and fictional characters

* Quick (surname), a list of people and fictional characters *

James Murphy (gridiron football) James Jessie Murphy (born October 10, 1959) was a receiver for eight seasons with the Winnipeg Blue Bombers of the Canadian Football League. Career Murphy played for the Bombers from 1982-1990. He was named the league's Most Outstanding Player i ...

(born 1959), retired Canadian Football League player nicknamed "Quick" * James "Quick" Parker (1958–2018), Canadian Football League player * James Tillis (born 1957), American boxer nicknamed "Quick"

Places in the United States

* Quick, Nebraska, an unincorporated community * Quick, West Virginia, an unincorporated community

Other uses

* Quick, an informal name for the

hyponychium The hyponychium is the area of epithelium, particularly the thickened portion, underlying the free edge of the nail plate on the nail. Its proximal border is immediately distal to distal limit of nail bed—a.k.a. the onychodermal band (the lin ...

, a sensitive region of skin between the fingertip and the free edge of the fingernail * USS ''Quick'' (DD-490), a US Navy ship during World War II *

QUICK scheme In computational fluid dynamics QUICK, which stands for Quadratic Upstream Interpolation for Convective Kinematics, is a higher-order differencing scheme that considers a three-point upstream weighted quadratic interpolation for the cell face value ...

(Quadratic Upstream Interpolation for Convective Kinematics), in computational fluid dynamics * Quiz for Improving Crew Knowledge, used in railway crew management in India for evaluation of crew knowledge