parkour

English
WOTD – 3 December 2008
Animation of a monkey vault, a basic parkour technique.

Etymology

From French parkour, altered spelling of parcours.

Pronunciation
  • (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /pɑːˈkʊə/, /pɑːˈkɔː/
  • (General American) IPA(key): /pɑɹˈkʊɹ/
  • Audio (US)(file)
  • Audio (AU)(file)
  • Rhymes: -ʊə(ɹ), -ɔː(ɹ)

Noun

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, and other similar physical movements.

Translations

Verb

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, quoting Tim Bennison, “Prototype [preview]”, in Xbox 360‎:
      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, Davies, Stephen, Hacking Timbuktu, Andersen Press, →ISBN, OL 24091744M, 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, Lindberg, Aaron, “Death Defying Photos Of Mustang Wanted”, in Fstoppers‎:
      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.

See also

Finnish

Etymology

From French parkour.

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /ˈpɑrkour/, [ˈpɑrko̞ur]
  • Rhymes: -ɑrkour
  • Syllabification(key): par‧ko‧ur

Noun

parkour

  1. parkour

Declension
Inflection of parkour (Kotus type 5/risti, no gradation)
nominative parkour parkourit
genitive parkourin parkourien
partitive parkouria parkoureja
illative parkouriin parkoureihin
singular plural
nominative parkour parkourit
accusative nom. parkour parkourit
gen. parkourin
genitive parkourin parkourien
partitive parkouria parkoureja
inessive parkourissa parkoureissa
elative parkourista parkoureista
illative parkouriin parkoureihin
adessive parkourilla parkoureilla
ablative parkourilta parkoureilta
allative parkourille parkoureille
essive parkourina parkoureina
translative parkouriksi parkoureiksi
instructive — parkourein
abessive parkouritta parkoureitta
comitative — parkoureineen
Possessive forms of parkour (type risti)
possessor singular plural
1st person parkourini parkourimme
2nd person parkourisi parkourinne
3rd person parkourinsa

French

Etymology

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

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /paʁ.kuʁ/
  • Audio(file)

Noun

parkour m (uncountable)

  1. parkour, free running

Descendants
  • → English: parkour
  • → German: Parkour
  • → Portuguese: parkour

Portuguese

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from French parkour.

Pronunciation
 
  • (Brazil) IPA(key): /paʁˈkuʁ/ [pahˈkuh]
    • (São Paulo) IPA(key): /paɾˈkuɾ/
    • (Rio de Janeiro) IPA(key): /paʁˈkuʁ/ [paχˈkuχ]
    • (Southern Brazil) IPA(key): /paɻˈkuɻ/

Noun

parkour m (uncountable)

  1. parkour (athletic discipline)

Spanish

Noun

parkour m (uncountable)

  1. parkour
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