Meanings of zipping across in English

I just saw a Snail Kite zipping across the sky here.

Effortlessly zipping across the screen feels a lot like using, well...an optical mouse.

There it goes: the shadow of the moon zipping across the continent of Africa.

They give the impression of feathers and sequins zipping across the room with nervous energy.

As the second climber, Sarah, is zipping across her harness buckle both breaks and unravels at the same time.

The robots zipping across the aluminum grid look less like Star Wars droids and more like little red wagons.

Local TV footage showed tracer fire zipping across the sky and smoke rising from the city center on Friday night.

He's leading a charge to adapt unmanned aerial vehicles -like the Predator Drones zipping across Afghanistan -to the task of crop surveillance.

Now the next thing I knew, we were down there in that muddy road while all the other cars were zipping across on the bridge.

It turns out the same method of using light to fool your biological clock works pretty well when you're zipping across time zones on Earth.

Zipping across the lake, he headed for the Rocks.

Zipping across the Øresund bridge by train on Monday morning I found myself wondering how much Ireland had contributed to the border stand-off here.