https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Streaking
WebDefinitions and etymology. The word has been used in its modern sense only since the 1960s. Before that, to streak in English since 1768 meant "to go quickly, to rush, to run at full speed", and was a re-spelling of streek: "to go quickly" (c.1380); this in turn was originally a northern Middle English variant of stretch (c. 1250). In December 1973, a graduate of …