English

Animation of a monkey vault, a basic parkour technique.

Noun

parkour ‎(uncountable)

1. 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.

Translations

Verb

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

1. (transitive, intransitive) To freerun; to use parkour (to move over).
   • 2008 March 24,, “Prototype [preview]”, in Xbox 360:

     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.

   • 2009 October 19, Davies, Stephen, Hacking Timbuktu, Andersen Press, ISBN 9781842708842, OL 24091744M, ch. 24:

     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.

   • 2013 March 25, Lindberg, Aaron, “Death Defying Photos Of Mustang Wanted”, in Fstoppers:

     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.

   • For more examples of usage of this term, see Citations:parkour.

See also

• free running

Synonyms

• (sport): traceur

French

Etymology

Respelling of parcours ‎(“route, course”), ultimately from Latin.

Noun

parkour m ‎(uncountable)

1. Free running, parkour.

Descendants

• English: parkour

Portuguese

Noun

parkour m (uncountable)

1. parkour (athletic discipline)

Spanish

Noun

parkour m ‎(uncountable)

1. parkour