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parkour

parkour

5 7.5
An activity where people move quickly over buildings and obstacles by running, jumping, and climbing
  • noun
  • /pɑrˈkʊr/
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  • Many young athletes practice parkour to improve their agility and strength.
  • parkour athletes
  • sport known as parkour

We were trying to show the world that not only can we do this parkour mobility thing, but we can pick up and move heavy things.

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Examples

  • I took a parkour class at the community center.

  • One of my kids got into parkour for a while, which is terrifying.

  • Parkour will give you that extra minute you need to get to the police station.

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  • That's the great thing about parkour, my friend.

  • Sly and Adrian are leaders of our parkour crew.

  • Freerunning is describing a visually interesting path in a certain environment, while parkour is getting from point A to point B as efficiently as possible.

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  • - I'm a professional parkour athlete, two-time world freerunning champion.

  • Parkour involves parkour running, jumping, and climbing over obstacles in an urban environment.

  • He impressively completed a series of parkour moves on the city streets.

Antonyms

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Still water that does not move in pipes or lakes, causing poor quality

How Athletic

gymnastics
98 3.3
parkour
5 7.5
running
108 1.0
jogging
41 1.0
walking
337 1.0

Surface Forms

parkour singular
parkours plural

Etymology

The word parkour comes from the French parcours, which means 'course' or 'route' and was used in the phrase 'parcours du combattant' for an 'obstacle course'. So parkour is about moving through a course, running, jumping and climbing over obstacles quickly and efficiently, not about going to a 'park'.