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)
- (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
athletic discipline
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Verb
parkour (third-person singular simple present parkours, present participle parkouring, simple past and past participle parkoured)
- (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.
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See also
- free running
- traceur
Finnish
Etymology
From French parkour.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈpɑrkour/, [ˈpɑrko̞ur]
- Rhymes: -ɑrkour
- Syllabification(key): par‧ko‧ur
Noun
parkour
- 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)
- 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/
- (Portugal) IPA(key): /paɾˈkuɾ/
Noun
parkour m (uncountable)
- parkour (athletic discipline)
Spanish
Noun
parkour m (uncountable)
- parkour