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Full Idea
The standard scholastic examples of 'entia successiva' are time and motion.
Gist of Idea
Typical successive things are time and motion
Source
Robert Pasnau (Metaphysical Themes 1274-1671 [2011], 18.1)
Book Ref
Pasnau,Robert: 'Metaphysical Themes 1274-1671' [OUP 2011], p.378
A Reaction
Aristotle's examples of a day and the Games seem clearer, as time and motion do not count so clearly as 'things'.