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

speed 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 non-negative scalar quantity. Intro ...

. Quick may also refer to:

In business

Quick (restaurant) Quick Restaurants is an originally Belgium, Belgian chain of hamburger fast food restaurants currently based in Bobigny, Seine-Saint-Denis, France. Quick was founded in 1971 by Belgian entrepreneur Baron François Vaxelaire and operates around ...

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

Music

The Quick (American 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, betwee ...

, a rock band from Los Angeles *

The Quick (British band) The Quick were an English new wave pop duo 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), a German film starring Lilian Harvey * ''Quick'', a 1993 American crime film starring

Teri Polo Theresa Elizabeth Polo (born June 1, 1969) is an American actress. She starred as Pamela Martha Focker (née Byrnes) in the ''Meet the Parents'' trilogy, Helen Santos in ''The West Wing'', and played the role of police officer Stef Adams Foster ...

* ''Quick'' (2011 film), a South Korean film * ''Quick'' (2019 film), also known as ''The Perfect Patient'', a 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 a type of bowling in cricket, in which the ball is delivered at high speed. The fastest bowlers bowl the ball at over . Practitioners of fast bowling are known as fast bowlers or quicks. Also ...

in cricket

People and fictional characters

Quick (surname) Quick is a surname In many societies, a surname, family name, or last name is the mostly hereditary portion of one's personal name that indicates one's family. It is typically combined with a given name to form the full name of a person, al ...

, a list of people and fictional characters * James Murphy (gridiron football) (born 1959), retired Canadian Football League player nicknamed "Quick" *

James "Quick" Parker James "Quick" Parker (January 1, 1958 – March 27, 2018) was an American former professional football player who was a leading defensive player in the Canadian Football League (CFL). He was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. After attending W ...

(1958–2018), Canadian Football League player *

James Tillis James Tillis (born July 5, 1957) is an American former professional boxer and actor. Known as "Quick", he was known for his remarkably fast hand speed for a man of his size and build. A natural southpaw, Tillis turned around to orthodox midway ...

(born 1957), American boxer nicknamed "Quick"

Places in the United States

Quick, Nebraska Quick is an unincorporated area in Frontier County, Nebraska, United States. History A post office A post office is a public facility and a retailer that provides mail services, such as accepting letter (message), letters and parcel (packag ...

, an unincorporated community *

Quick, West Virginia Quick is a small unincorporated community in Kanawha County, West Virginia, United States. It is located along Indian Creek Road (County Route 49). The community is where Whitoak Fork and Blue Creek come together and meet. It is also where the ab ...

, 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 ...

, 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-Orders of approximation, order differencing scheme that considers a three-point upstream weighted by quadratic interpola ...

(Quadratic Upstream Interpolation for Convective Kinematics), in computational fluid dynamics * Quiz for Improving Crew Knowledge, used in

railway crew management in India Indian Railway, the world's largest network (under a single management), consists of more than 100,000 Loco Pilots (Drivers) and Train Managers (Guards), which forms the basic functioning team, responsible for Train Operations. They are the highes ...

for evaluation of crew knowledge