parkour

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. An athletic discipline, in which practitioners traverse any environment in the most efficient way possible using their physical abilities, and which commonly involves running, jumping, vaulting, rolling, flipping, and other similar physical movements.
verb
  1. To freerun; to use parkour (to move over).

Pronunciation

/pɑːˈkʊə/ /pɑːˈkɔː/ /pɑɹˈkʊɹ/ /pɑɹˈkoɹ/ en-us-parkour.ogg en-au-parkour.ogg

Word forms

parkour parkours parkouring parkoured

Etymology

Borrowed from French parkour, altered spelling of parcours (“course, route”).

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