parkrun
parkrun noun: an informal weekly 5 km (2 km for junior parkrun) running event that takes place in a park or similar location.
Noun
parkrun (countable and uncountable, plural parkruns)
- An informal weekly 5 km (2 km for junior parkrun) running event that takes place in a park or similar location.
- 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.2023 October 1, Ellie Ng, “London Marathon Foundation invests £1m in junior parkrun in new partnership”, in The Independent, London: Independent News & Media, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original...
Verb
parkrun (third-person singular simple present parkruns, present participle parkrunning, simple past parkran, past participle parkrun)
- To take part in this running event.
Forms of parkrun
| Noun | |
|---|---|
| plural | parkruns |
| Verb | |
| third-person singular present | parkruns |
| present participle | parkrunning |
| past | parkran |
| past participle | parkrun |
Origin of parkrun
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.
Questions about parkrun
- What does parkrun mean?
- Parkrun means an informal weekly 5 km (2 km for junior parkrun) running event that takes place in a park or similar location.
- What part of speech is parkrun?
- Parkrun can be a noun or a verb.
- What is the plural of parkrun?
- The plural of parkrun is parkruns.
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Adapted from Wiktionary: parkrun (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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