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 quant ...

. Quick may also refer to:

In business

Quick (restaurant) Quick Restaurants is an originally Belgian chain of hamburger fast food restaurants currently based in Bobigny, Seine-Saint-Denis, France. Founded in 1971 by Belgian entrepreneur Baron François Vaxelaire, Quick is the first hamburger chain f ...

, a Belgian fast-food restaurant chain *

Quick (sportswear) Quick is a Dutch manufacturer of sportswear. In 1905, Quick was founded in Hengelo, Gelderland, and started the production of athletic shoes for many sports. Quick provided the official running shoes for the Olympic Games of 1928 in Amsterdam. Alth ...

, 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-cy ...

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

Music

* The Quick (U.S. band), a rock band from Los Angeles *

The Quick (UK band) The Quick was a dance-pop duo from England that consisted of vocalist Colin "Col" Campsie and bassist/keyboardist George McFarlane. Their greatest success in the US came in 1981 when their song " Zulu" spent two weeks at No. 1 on the US ...

, 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 AHC Quick (Amsterdamsche Honkbal Club Quick), commonly known as Quick Amsterdam, is a baseball and softball club based in Amsterdam, the Netherlands. Founded in 1913, it is the oldest baseball club in Europe still in existence. Today the club ope ...

, 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''. ...

in cricket

People and fictional characters

* Quick (surname), a list of people and fictional characters * James Murphy (gridiron football) (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 line ...

, 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 val ...

(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