parkour

Parkour is the sport of moving quickly over walls, benches, and anything else in the way using leaping, climbing and running in a smooth, graceful way.

(noun)

An example of parkour is how a criminal runs through a park and clears tables, walls and other structures with ease in an action movie chase scene.

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See parkour in American Heritage Dictionary 4

noun
A sport or athletic activity in which the participant seeks to move quickly and fluidly through an area, often an urban locale, by surmounting obstacles such as walls and railings and leaping across open spaces, as in a stairwell or between buildings.

Origin:

Origin: French

Origin: , from respelling of parcours, distance covered, course

Origin: , from Old French, right to drive or pasture animals in an area, route

Origin: , from Medieval Latin percursus

Origin: , from past participle of Latin percurrere, to run through, rove; see percurrent

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