parkrun

English

Alternative forms

• Parkrun

Etymology

Compound of park +‎ run. The first parkrun event, originally known as the "Bushy Park Time Trial", was founded by Paul Sinton-Hewitt in 2004 but only adopted the name "parkrun" in 2008.

Noun

parkrun (countable and uncountable, plural parkruns)

1. An informal weekly 5 km (2 km for junior parkrun) running event that takes place in a park or similar location.
   • 2023 October 1, Ellie Ng, “London Marathon Foundation invests £1m in junior parkrun in new partnership”, in The Independent‎^[1], London: Independent News & Media, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2023-10-09:

     The partnership will establish more than 120 new junior parkrun events across the UK, focusing on areas of deprivation and communities where inactivity is at its highest, and growing existing events that have lower attendance.

Related terms

• parkrunner

 

Verb

parkrun (third-person singular simple present parkruns, present participle parkrunning, simple past parkran, past participle parkrun)

1. To take part in this running event.

Further reading

• parkrun on Wikipedia.Wikipedia