parkour

English

WOTD – 3 December 2008    

Wikipedia

Animation of a kong vault, a basic parkour technique.

Etymology

From French parkour, altered spelling of parcours.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA: /pɑːˈkʊə/
• (US) IPA: /pɑɹˈkʊɹ/

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• Rhymes: -ʊə(r)
• Rhymes: -ʊə(r)

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

athletic discipline

• Catalan: parkour (ca)
• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 跑酷 (paau2 huk6)

  Mandarin: 跑酷 (cmn)

• Finnish: parkour (fi)
• French: parkour (fr) m
• Hebrew: פארקור (he) (parqur) m

• Japanese: パルクール (ja) (parukūru)
• Lithuanian: parkūras (lt) m
• Persian: پارکور (fa) (parkur)
• Russian: паркур (ru) (parkur) m
• Spanish: parkour (es)
• Swedish: parkour (sv)

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).
   • 2010, Stephen Davies, Hacking Timbuktu:

     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.

See also

• free running

Synonyms

• (sport): traceur
• (figurative): butterflies in one's stomach
• Parkour on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

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French

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Etymology

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

Noun

parkour m (usually uncountable)

1. Free running, parkour.

Descendants

• English: parkour

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Spanish

Wikipedia ^es

Noun

parkour m (usually uncountable)

1. parkour