See flit in Webster's New World Roget's A-Z Thesaurus II
verb
To move swiftly:
bolt, bucket, bustle, dart, dash, festinate, flash, fleet, fly, haste, hasten, hurry, hustle, pelt2, race, rocket, run, rush, sail, scoot, scour2, shoot, speed, sprint, tear1, trot, whirl, whisk, whiz, wing, zip, zoom. (Informal) hotfoot, rip. (Slang) barrel, highball. (Chiefly British) nip1. Idioms: get a move on, get cracking, go like lightning, go like the wind, hotfoot it, make haste, make time, make tracks, run like the wind, shake a leg, step (or jump) on it. See moveTo move quickly, lightly, and irregularly like a bird in flight:
flicker, flitter, flutter, hover. See repetitionTo move through the air with or as if with wings:
flap, flitter, flutter, fly, sail, wing. See move
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