flick through
phrasal verbflick through something (especially British English)
- to look quickly through a book, magazine, website, etc. without reading everything synonym flip through
- I've only had time to flick through your report but it seems to be fine.
- She flicked idly through a magazine.
Oxford Collocations Dictionaryadverb- casually
- nervously
- quickly
- …
- across
- from
- off
- …
- flick something open
- absent-mindedly
- casually
- idly
- …
- to keep changing television channels quickly to see what programmes are on synonym flip through
- Flicking through the channels, I came across an old war movie.