Speed up! Slow down! Hurry hurry — but hang on! Sometimes you need some speed-related prompts for your improvisation games or playwriting projects, and we won’t keep you waiting. Here is a collection of 25 speedy and 25 languid prompts (50 prompts total!), with a collection of exit slip questions and a handy link round-up in the giveaway below. Don’t delay — get at it, post-haste!
Fast Prompts
- A supersonic jet
- An Olympic sprinter
- An Olympic swimmer
- A speed skater
- Hermes, the Greek god of speed and agility
- Someone being chased by a bear
- Someone urgently searching for a bathroom
- A peregrine falcon
- A shortfin mako (the world’s fastest shark)
- A race car
- Some hot gossip
- A cheetah
- A speeding bullet
- A bullet train
- A superhero with super-speed powers (like The Flash or Quicksilver)
- An avalanche
- A pet dog or cat doing zoomies
- A quickstep ballroom dance
- A waterslide
- A rollercoaster
- A rabbit
- EDM (electronic dance music)
- Fast food
- The Fast and the Furious movie series
- A velociraptor
Slow Prompts
- A tortoise
- A snail
- A baby learning to walk
- An elderly person
- Someone with a broken leg
- People strolling along the beach
- A traffic jam
- A sloth
- Ketchup coming out of a glass bottle
- Trying to scrape price tag residue off an item
- Being put on hold on the phone
- A ballad
- A meal made in a slow cooker
- Being stuck in mud
- Waiting in line
- Completing a thousand-piece puzzle
- Molasses
- Growing out your hair
- A restaurant with mediocre service
- Learning how to skate
- Dial-up internet
- Trying to remove waterproof makeup
- Trying to turn off your phone in a theatre while everyone watches you angrily
- A shopping cart with a wiggly wheel
- Tourists
Kerry Hishon is a director, actor, writer and stage combatant from London, Ontario, Canada. She blogs at www.kerryhishon.com.
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