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Definition

able to move well quickly and easily

or:

able to think well quickly and easily

She is amazingly agile for someone so tall.

agile = able to move well quickly and easily

She's an agile thinker. I'd like her at the meeting.

agile = able to think well quickly and easily

Her agility allows her to guard even the quickest ball handlers.

agility = ability to move well quickly and easily

Even as he touched it, the general sensed his danger and leaped back with the agility of an ape.
Richard Connell -- The Most Dangerous Game

agility = ability to move well quickly and easily

He was faster and more agile than the Frenchmen and would have easily escaped their pursuit if he'd known his way around Paris.
Frank Beddor -- The Looking Glass Wars

agile = able to move well quickly and easily

Like you're two seconds faster in the agility drill.
Carl Deuker -- Gym Candy

agility = ability to move well quickly and easily

A very thin and very agile person may, by observing his reflection in a rapid sequence of longitudinal strips, obtain a fairly accurate conception of his looks.
O. Henry -- The Gift of the Magi

agile = able to move well quickly and easily

Having somersaulted out of a puddle and landed on his feet with the agility of...well, of a cat, he let his instinct for self-protection take over.
Frank Beddor -- The Looking Glass Wars

agility = ability to move well quickly and easily

To walk across country without much regard to roads was not new to Tess, and she showed her old agility in the performance.
Thomas Hardy -- Tess of the d'Urbervilles
Buck's marvellous quickness and agility stood him in good stead.
Jack London -- The Call of the Wild
Her mother might feel frustrated looking at these emblems of her more agile self.
Amy Tan -- The Bonesetter's Daughter
'You shall see,' said Tim, getting off his stool with great agility, 'you shall see, not only Mr Charles, but Mr Ned likewise.'
Charles Dickens -- Nicholas Nickleby
Their first couple of steps were lumbering, but then they recovered, growing steady and strong and agile.
James Dashner -- The Scorch Trials
The hunter moved with his swift, noiseless agility.
Zane Grey -- The Man of the Forest
We took our place, Renesmee climbing agilely onto my back to leave my hands free.
Stephenie Meyer -- Breaking Dawn
Somehow, they managed not to fall off as Anion scaled the cliffs, jumping from foothold to foothold with impossible speed and agility.
Rick Riordan -- The Son of Neptune
It wasn't one he'd seen before tonight; this one had the wrinkled face and agile hands of a huge monkey, but the long, barbed tail of a scorpion.
Cassandra Clare -- City of Ashes
No severe damage was done, owing to the agility of the strikers in keeping out of reach.
Theodore Dreiser -- Sister Carrie
You are a father, a dictator, a servant, the most agile actor this land has ever known.
Chang-rae Lee -- Native Speaker
The Countess's mind, when her interests were concerned, was agile; she already foresaw the extinction of any further brightness in her visit to Rome.
Henry James -- The Portrait of a Lady - Volume 2

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