noun
parkour
pah-KOOR
noun
1
An athletic discipline of moving efficiently through an environment using running, jumping, vaulting, and climbing.
"He trained for years to master parkour moves over walls and railings."
How to Use Parkour
Learner’s notesIn plain EnglishThe sport of getting from one place to another by vaulting, jumping, and climbing over obstacles as smoothly as possible.
Common pairings
practice parkour
parkour move
Word Forms
parkoured past tense, parkours singular
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Etymology
Borrowed from French parkour, an altered spelling of parcours, "course, route."