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parkour

noun · verb · 2 senses · updated from the 2026-07-25 local source snapshot

Definitions and examples are grouped by meaning. Pronunciation, history, word forms, translations, descendants, synonyms, antonyms, derived terms, and related words appear whenever the source provides them.

Sound

Pronunciation

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  • Received-Pronunciation: /pɑːˈkʊə/
  • Received-Pronunciation: /pɑːˈkɔː/
  • General-American: /pɑɹˈkʊɹ/
  • General-American: /pɑɹˈkoɹ/ pour–poor merger
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  • rhymes with -ʊə(ɹ)
  • rhymes with -ɔː(ɹ)

1

noun

Meaning 1

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.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: uncountable

Topics: hobbies, lifestyle, sports

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

2

verb

Meaning 2

To freerun; to use parkour (to move over).

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: intransitive, transitive

Topics: hobbies, lifestyle, sports

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

History

Etymology

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

Across languages

Translations

27 source translations are retained for this English entry.

  • Arabic: وَثَابَة (waṯāba) — athletic discipline
  • Catalan: parkour — athletic discipline
  • Chinese Cantonese: 跑酷 (paau2 huk6) — athletic discipline
  • Chinese Mandarin: 跑酷 (pǎokù) — athletic discipline
  • Czech: parkour — athletic discipline
  • Dutch: parkour — athletic discipline
  • Esperanto: parkuro — athletic discipline
  • Finnish: parkour — athletic discipline
  • French: parkour — athletic discipline
  • German: Parkour — athletic discipline
  • Greek: παρκούρ (parkoúr) — athletic discipline
  • Hebrew: פארקור (parqur) — athletic discipline
  • Ido: parkuro — athletic discipline
  • Indonesian: parkur — athletic discipline
  • Japanese: パルクール (parukūru) — athletic discipline
  • Korean: 파쿠르 (pakureu) — athletic discipline
  • Lithuanian: parkūras — athletic discipline
  • Persian: پارکور (pârkur) — athletic discipline
  • Polish: parkour — athletic discipline
  • Portuguese: parkour — athletic discipline
  • Portuguese: parcur — athletic discipline
  • Russian: паркур (parkur) — athletic discipline
  • Slovak: parkour — athletic discipline
  • Slovak: parkúr — athletic discipline
  • Spanish: parkour — athletic discipline
  • Swedish: parkour — athletic discipline
  • Turkish: parkur — athletic discipline