Parkour

Quick meaning: Parkour is a noun meaning (sports, transitive, intransitive) To freerun; to use parkour (to move over).

Meaning

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

More Meanings

1. (sports) 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.

Example Sentences

On Astypalea, the possibilities for parkour routines are endless, as illustrated by the variety of tricks each athlete unveiled at Art of Motion.

They had parkoured seven roofs, clambered down a mango tree, and crossed over the bridge in the back of a donkey cart, unnoticed even by the driver.

It's about running at 100mph through the world, then parkouring up an exploding cube van that's 100ft in the air, bouncing off it and hitting the wall and keeping on going.

The daring Ukrainian can be found on his website dangling off of tall buildings with one hand, scaling bridges and parkouring through urban landscapes in search of a personal thrill.

Word Forms

• parkours
• parkouring
• parkoured

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include free running, freerun, parachuting, jumpathon, pole vault, jump'n'run.

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