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.
See parkour in American Heritage Dictionary 4
noun
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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