parkour

From French parkour, altered spelling of parcours (“course, route”).

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /pɑːˈkʊə/, /pɑːˈkɔː/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /pɑɹˈkʊɹ/, (pour–poor merger) /pɑɹˈkoɹ/

• Audio (US):

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• Rhymes: -ʊə(ɹ), -ɔː(ɹ)

parkour (uncountable)

1. (sports) 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, flipping, and other similar physical movements.
2. (Minecraft) A course in which a player has to step on blocks, each placed almost in front of another block but reachable, following a pattern to the end.

   He was invited to do a parkour competition in Minecraft.

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

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

     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, Stephen Davies, Hacking Timbuktu, Andersen Press, →ISBN, →OL, 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, Aaron Lindberg, “Death Defying Photos Of Mustang Wanted”, in Fstoppers‎^[2], archived from the original on 27 June 2014:

     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 quotations using this term, see Citations:parkour.

• free running
• traceur

From French parkour.

• IPA^(key): /ˈpɑrkour/, [ˈpɑ̝rko̞ur]
• Rhymes: -ɑrkour
• Syllabification^(key): par‧ko‧ur
• Hyphenation^(key): par‧ko‧ur

parkour

1. parkour

• “parkour”, in Kielitoimiston sanakirja [Dictionary of Contemporary Finnish]‎^[3] (in Finnish) (online dictionary, continuously updated), Kotimaisten kielten keskuksen verkkojulkaisuja 35, Helsinki: Kotimaisten kielten tutkimuskeskus (Institute for the Languages of Finland), 2004–, retrieved 3 July 2023

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

• IPA^(key): /paʁ.kuʁ/

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parkour m (uncountable)

1. parkour, free running

• → English: parkour
• → German: Parkour
• → Norwegian Bokmål: parkour
• → Portuguese: parkour

Unadapted borrowing from French parkour, a respelling of parcours (“course, route”), from Latin percursus. Doublet of percurso.

parkour m (uncountable)

1. parkour (athletic discipline)

Unadapted borrowing from French parkour.

• IPA^(key): /paɾˈkuɾ/ [paɾˈkuɾ]
• Rhymes: -uɾ
• Syllabification: par‧kour

parkour m (uncountable)

1. parkour

According to Royal Spanish Academy (RAE) prescriptions, unadapted foreign words should be written in italics in a text printed in roman type, and vice versa, and in quotation marks in a manuscript text or when italics are not available. In practice, this RAE prescription is not always followed.

• “parkour”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 10 December 2024

parkour c

1. parkour

• parkour in Svensk ordbok (SO)
• parkour in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)