: the sport of traversing environmental obstacles by running, climbing, or leaping rapidly and efficiently
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Adventure sports like parkour, slacklining, motocross, rodeo, skiing, and snowboarding also pose concussion risks, Wilson and Grishman said.
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Tribune News Service, The Mercury News, 9 Nov. 2024
That robot, which filled observers with equal parts awe and terror, weighed in at 330 pounds and could pull off black flips and parkour moves.
—Mack Degeurin, Popular Science, 31 Oct. 2024
Players are not armed on the Freedom Town, USA Fortnite map, with footage shared on social media showing players taking part in parkour, making buildings and completing challenges like finding posters for a Harris rally which have been scattered around a map by the wind.
—Nina Turner, Newsweek, 29 Oct. 2024
Some parkour masters can scale a building by jumping back and forth between two facing vertical surfaces, zigzagging upward.
—Rhett Allain, WIRED, 20 Sep. 2024
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Tribune News Service, The Mercury News, 9 Nov. 2024
That robot, which filled observers with equal parts awe and terror, weighed in at 330 pounds and could pull off black flips and parkour moves.
—Mack Degeurin, Popular Science, 31 Oct. 2024
Players are not armed on the Freedom Town, USA Fortnite map, with footage shared on social media showing players taking part in parkour, making buildings and completing challenges like finding posters for a Harris rally which have been scattered around a map by the wind.
—Nina Turner, Newsweek, 29 Oct. 2024
Some parkour masters can scale a building by jumping back and forth between two facing vertical surfaces, zigzagging upward.
—Rhett Allain, WIRED, 20 Sep. 2024
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“Parkour.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/parkour. Accessed 1 Dec. 2024.
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parkour
noun
par·kour
pär-ˈku̇r 
ˈpär-ˌku̇r
: the sport of traversing environmental obstacles by running, climbing, or leaping rapidly and efficiently
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