parkour
[ pahr-koor, -kawr, -kohr ]
/ pɑrˈkʊər, -ˈkɔr, -ˈkoʊr /
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noun
the sport of moving along a route, typically in a city, trying to get around or through various obstacles in the quickest and most efficient manner possible, as by jumping, climbing, or running: his amazing parkour skills.
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Origin of parkour
2000-05; alteration of French parcours course, route <Medieval Latin percursus <Latin percurrere to run through <per- through + currere to run
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Example sentences from the Web for parkour
Boston Dynamics, the heavyweight champ of robot videos, regularly releases mind-blowing footage of robots doing parkour, back flips, and complex dance routines.
This Robot Taught Itself to Walk in a Simulation—Then Went for a Stroll in Berkeley|Jason Dorrier|April 11, 2021|Singularity HubThis, coupled with the best parkour system, series-topping animation blending and the most beautifully detailed world in the series, elevates this once-troubled game to the top of the list for me.
They rollerblade, skateboard, perform beatbox and hip-hop, and do parkour.
Parkour is the art of getting from one place to another, on foot, as creatively as humanly possible.
British Dictionary definitions for parkour
parkour
/ (ˈpɑːkˌɔː) /
noun
the sport or activity of running through urban areas while performing various gymnastic manoeuvres over or on man-made obstacles such as walls and buildingsAlso called: free running
Word Origin for parkour
C20: from French parcour, used by the creators of the activity to mean `obstacle course'
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