fast-moving

[ fast-moo-ving, fahst- ]

/ ˈfæstˈmu vɪŋ, ˈfɑst- /

moving or capable of moving at high speed.

(of a novel, play, or the like) having sustained action and interest with events following one another rapidly; lively in plot.

Words nearby fast-moving

First recorded in 1930–35

Getting close to a bunch of giant, angry, fast-moving wild animals does.
Chicago’s Running of the Bulls|Hampton Stevens|July 26, 2014|DAILY BEAST
The fast-moving, competitive capital of the United States forced him out of his more reserved shell, he says.
‘No Woman, No Drive’: Behind the Viral Video|Sophia Jones|October 28, 2013|DAILY BEAST
In the last scene, he uses his calculus of flow to rescue an Iraqi boy from a fast-moving, wind-buffeted river.
Joseph McElroy’s ‘Cannonball’ Is the Meta Iraq War Novel|Tom LeClair|July 25, 2013|DAILY BEAST
The baby would have found herself in a fast-moving and quickly thickening forest of huge legs.
How to Capture an Elephant: Excerpt From Michael Daly’s ‘Topsy’|Michael Daly|July 8, 2013|DAILY BEAST

This was an egregious error, a product of a fast-moving media culture in which getting it first often supersedes getting it right.
Media Misfire: Accusing the Wrong Man in Connecticut Shooting|Howard Kurtz|December 15, 2012|DAILY BEAST
To have leaped from the fast-moving train among the rocks which lined the right of way, would have been fatal.
Broke|Edwin A. Brown
If he is right it is inevitable that time, fast-moving or slow-moving, must influence the conception of events.
Criminal Psychology|Hans Gross
Then, abruptly, the fast-moving cavalcade came to the edge of the city and plunged into it.
The Hate Disease|William Fitzgerald Jenkins
The fast-moving train is stopped by an air brake, and the locomotive bell is rung by touching an air cylinder.
Inventions in the Century|William Henry Doolittle
Within three weeks of the surrender Prince Maurice with a body of fast-moving cavalry overran that county almost unopposed.
Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 12, Slice 4|Various