"parkour" meaning in English

See parkour in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Noun

IPA: /pɑːˈkʊə/ [Received-Pronunciation], /pɑːˈkɔː/ [Received-Pronunciation], /pɑɹˈkʊɹ/ [General-American] Audio: en-us-parkour.ogg , en-au-parkour.ogg
Rhymes: -ʊə(ɹ), -ɔː(ɹ) Etymology: From French parkour, altered spelling of parcours (“course, route”). Etymology templates: {{root|en|ine-pro|*ḱers-}}, {{bor|en|fr|parkour}} French parkour Head templates: {{en-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, flipping, and other similar physical movements. Tags: uncountable Categories (topical): Sports, Athletics Translations (athletic discipline): وَثَابَة (waṯāba) [feminine] (Arabic), parkour (Catalan), 跑酷 (paau² huk⁶) (Chinese Cantonese), 跑酷 (pǎokù) (Chinese Mandarin), parkour [masculine] (Czech), parkour (Dutch), parkuro (Esperanto), parkour (Finnish), parkour [masculine] (French), Parkour [masculine] (German), παρκούρ (parkoúr) [neuter] (Greek), פארקור (parqur) [masculine] (Hebrew), parkuro (Ido), parkur (Indonesian), パルクール (parukūru) (Japanese), 파르쿠르 (pareukureu) (Korean), parkūras [masculine] (Lithuanian), پارکور (pârkur) (Persian), parkour [masculine] (Polish), parkour [masculine] (Portuguese), parcur [masculine, rare] (Portuguese), паркур (parkur) [masculine] (Russian), parkour [masculine] (Slovak), parkúr [masculine, rare] (Slovak), parkour (Spanish), parkour (Swedish), parkur (Turkish)
    Sense id: en-parkour-en-noun-llI-JlBG Disambiguation of Athletics: 65 35 Categories (other): Terms with Arabic translations, Terms with Czech translations, Terms with Greek translations, Terms with Hebrew translations, Terms with Mandarin translations Disambiguation of Terms with Arabic translations: 48 52 Disambiguation of Terms with Czech translations: 47 53 Disambiguation of Terms with Greek translations: 45 55 Disambiguation of Terms with Hebrew translations: 49 51 Disambiguation of Terms with Mandarin translations: 47 53 Topics: hobbies, lifestyle, sports

Verb

IPA: /pɑːˈkʊə/ [Received-Pronunciation], /pɑːˈkɔː/ [Received-Pronunciation], /pɑɹˈkʊɹ/ [General-American] Audio: en-us-parkour.ogg , en-au-parkour.ogg Forms: parkours [present, singular, third-person], parkouring [participle, present], parkoured [participle, past], parkoured [past]
Rhymes: -ʊə(ɹ), -ɔː(ɹ) Etymology: From French parkour, altered spelling of parcours (“course, route”). Etymology templates: {{root|en|ine-pro|*ḱers-}}, {{bor|en|fr|parkour}} French parkour Head templates: {{en-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). Tags: intransitive, transitive Categories (topical): Sports Related terms: free running, traceur
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