Parkour Definition

pär-ko͝or
noun
A sport or athletic activity in which the participant seeks to move quickly and fluidly through an area, often an urban locale, by surmounting obstacles such as walls and railings and leaping across open spaces, as in a stairwell or between buildings.
American Heritage

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, and other similar physical movements.

Wiktionary
verb

(intransitive) To freerun; to use parkour (to move over).

Wiktionary

Origin of Parkour

  • French from respelling of parcours course (as in parcours du combattant obstacle course (literally, “combatant's course”)) from Old French right to drive animals in an area, route from Medieval Latin percursus from past participle of Latin percurrere to run through, rove percurrent

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

  • From French parkour, altered spelling of parcours.

    From Wiktionary

Parkour Sentence Examples

  • Parkour is the art of moving around as quickly and efficiently as possible.

  • Runners are the messengers of the future who practice parkour to deliver underground messages to revolutionary factions in the city.

  • Free Running is an exercise/sports game based on the Parkour urban game where athletes use their surroundings to maneuver around areas.

  • As a runner trained by the best in parkour, you rely on stealth and acrobatics rather than machine guns and knives.

  • He holds a handful of Guinness World Records, including Longest UTV Ramp Jump.Bell is currently the host of the MTV series Ultimate Parkour Challenge.

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