PARKOUR

Etymology

Noun

parkour (uncountable)

(sport) 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.

Verb

parkour (third-person singular simple present parkours, present participle parkouring, simple past and past participle parkoured)

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

Synonyms

• (sport): traceur

Source: Wiktionary



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