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 quanti ...

. Quick may also refer to:

In business

* Quick (restaurant), a Belgian fast-food restaurant chain * Quick (sportswear), a Dutch manufacturer of sportswear * Quick (automobile), 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) Quick Style or The Quick Style and also known as the Quick Crew, is a Norwegian hip-hop/urban dance group founded by two Norwegian-Pakistani brothers. The group is notable for having won Norske Talenter, a Norwegian version of ''America's Got ...

, 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 Quick 1888 (also referred to as Quick Nijmegen) is an amateur sporting club from Nijmegen, Netherlands. It was founded in 1888 as a cricket club and currently plays football in the third amateur level. As a football club, Quick reached its moment ...

, 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) Quick is the surname of: People: * Bob Quick (basketball) (born 1946), retired American basketball player * Bob Quick (police officer), British police officer * Brian Quick (born 1989), American football player * Chris Quick (born 1988), Scottish f ...

, 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 ...

(born 1959), retired Canadian Football League player nicknamed "Quick" *

James "Quick" Parker James "Quick" Parker (January 1, 1958 – March 27, 2018) was a Canadian football player who was a leading defensive player in the Canadian Football League. He was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. After attending Wake Forest University from ...

(1958–2018), Canadian Football League player *

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

(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 letters and parcels, providing post offic ...

, 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 aba ...

, 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 Rail transport (also known as train transport) is a means of transport that transfers passengers and goods on wheeled vehicles running on rails, which are incorporated in tracks. In contrast to road transport, where the vehicles run on a prep ...

for evaluation of crew knowledge