parkour

UK/pɑːˈkʊə//pɑɹˈkʊɹ/

parkour noun: 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.

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Noun

parkour (uncountable)

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.
- On Astypalea, the possibilities for parkour routines are endless, as illustrated by the variety of tricks each athlete unveiled at Art of Motion.2022 June 16, Issy Ronald, “Meet the parkour athletes defying fear and gravity at Red Bull Art of Motion”, in CNN, archived from the original on 26 Jun 2022

Verb

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

(intransitive, transitive) To freerun; to use parkour (to move over).
- 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.2008 March 24, Tim Bennison, quotee, “Prototype [preview]”, in Xbox 360
- 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.2009 October 19, Stephen Davies, Hacking Timbuktu, Andersen Press, →ISBN, →OL, ch. 24

parkour meaning in Arabic, Indonesian and Persian

parkour in Arabic

athletic discipline: وَثَابَة waṯāba

parkour in Indonesian

athletic discipline: parkur

parkour in Persian

athletic discipline: پارکور pârkur

Forms of parkour

third-person singular present	parkours
present participle	parkouring
past participle	parkoured
past	parkoured

Origin of parkour

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

Words formed from parkour

parkourist

Words that rhyme with parkour

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Questions about parkour

What does parkour mean?: Parkour means 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.
What is parkour in Arabic?: Parkour in Arabic is وَثَابَة (waṯāba). See Parkour meaning in Arabic.
What part of speech is parkour?: Parkour can be a noun or a verb.
How do you pronounce parkour?: Parkour is pronounced /pɑːˈkʊə/ (UK).

Words near parkour in the dictionary

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Last updated: 2026-09-02

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