get moving
idiom
informal
: to start moving or going quickly : to hurry
We need to get moving or we'll miss the show.
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With that in mind, Carlo Ancelotti better get moving.
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Joseph O'Sullivan, Forbes.com, 4 June 2025
Tom Slingsby blamed a shockingly bad start in Race 1 on catching kelp around the team’s foils just before the gun fired, leaving the Australian F50 floundering and struggling to get moving while the rest of the fleet hydrofoiled its way toward Mark 1.
—Andrew Rice, The Athletic, 16 Mar. 2025
Everyone has experienced that itch to get moving before and it shouldn’t be dismissed, according to Thompson.
—Theresa Tamkins, SELF, 21 Feb. 2025
So perhaps the best way to approach this first week of our new Thailand adventure is to look at how each of those parts is deployed here before things get moving in the coming installments.
—Alan Sepinwall, Rolling Stone, 16 Feb. 2025
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Joseph O'Sullivan, Forbes.com, 4 June 2025
Tom Slingsby blamed a shockingly bad start in Race 1 on catching kelp around the team’s foils just before the gun fired, leaving the Australian F50 floundering and struggling to get moving while the rest of the fleet hydrofoiled its way toward Mark 1.
—Andrew Rice, The Athletic, 16 Mar. 2025
Everyone has experienced that itch to get moving before and it shouldn’t be dismissed, according to Thompson.
—Theresa Tamkins, SELF, 21 Feb. 2025
So perhaps the best way to approach this first week of our new Thailand adventure is to look at how each of those parts is deployed here before things get moving in the coming installments.
—Alan Sepinwall, Rolling Stone, 16 Feb. 2025
See All Example Sentences for get moving
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“Get moving.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/get%20moving. Accessed 8 Jun. 2025.
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