parkour
English
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Etymology
[edit]From French parkour, altered spelling of parcours (“course, route”).
Pronunciation
[edit]- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /pɑːˈkʊə/, /pɑːˈkɔː/
- (General American) IPA(key): /pɑɹˈkʊɹ/
Audio (US): (file) Audio (General Australian): (file) - Rhymes: -ʊə(ɹ), -ɔː(ɹ)
Noun
[edit]parkour (uncountable)
- (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.
Translations
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Verb
[edit]parkour (third-person singular simple present parkours, present participle parkouring, simple past and past participle parkoured)
- (sports, transitive, intransitive) To freerun; to use parkour (to move over).
- 2008 March 24, Tim Bennison, quotee, “Prototype [preview]”, in Xbox 360[1]:
- It's about running at 100mph through the world, then parkouring up an exploding cube van that's 100ft in the air, bouncing off it and hitting the wall and keeping on going.
- 2013 March 25, Aaron Lindberg, “Death Defying Photos Of Mustang Wanted”, in Fstoppers[2], archived from the original on 27 June 2014:
- The daring Ukrainian can be found on his website dangling off of tall buildings with one hand, scaling bridges and parkouring through urban landscapes in search of a personal thrill.
- For more quotations using this term, see Citations:parkour.
See also
[edit]Finnish
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]parkour
Declension
[edit]Inflection of parkour (Kotus type 5/risti, no gradation) | |||
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nominative | parkour | parkourit | |
genitive | parkourin | parkourien | |
partitive | parkouria | parkoureja | |
illative | parkouriin | parkoureihin | |
singular | plural | ||
nominative | parkour | parkourit | |
accusative | nom. | parkour | parkourit |
gen. | parkourin | ||
genitive | parkourin | parkourien | |
partitive | parkouria | parkoureja | |
inessive | parkourissa | parkoureissa | |
elative | parkourista | parkoureista | |
illative | parkouriin | parkoureihin | |
adessive | parkourilla | parkoureilla | |
ablative | parkourilta | parkoureilta | |
allative | parkourille | parkoureille | |
essive | parkourina | parkoureina | |
translative | parkouriksi | parkoureiksi | |
abessive | parkouritta | parkoureitta | |
instructive | — | parkourein | |
comitative | See the possessive forms below. |
Further reading
[edit]- “parkour”, in Kielitoimiston sanakirja [Dictionary of Contemporary Finnish][3] (in Finnish) (online dictionary, continuously updated), Kotimaisten kielten keskuksen verkkojulkaisuja 35, Helsinki: Kotimaisten kielten tutkimuskeskus (Institute for the Languages of Finland), 2004–, retrieved 2023-07-03
French
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Respelling of parcours (“route, course”), ultimately from Latin.
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]parkour m (uncountable)
Descendants
[edit]Portuguese
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Unadapted borrowing from French parkour.
Pronunciation
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Noun
[edit]parkour m (uncountable)
- parkour (athletic discipline)
Spanish
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Unadapted borrowing from French parkour.
Noun
[edit]parkour m (uncountable)
Usage notes
[edit]According to Royal Spanish Academy (RAE) prescriptions, unadapted foreign words should be written in italics in a text printed in roman type, and vice versa, and in quotation marks in a manuscript text or when italics are not available. In practice, this RAE prescription is not always followed.
Further reading
[edit]- “parkour”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014
Swedish
[edit]Noun
[edit]parkour c
Declension
[edit]Declension of parkour | ||||
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Uncountable | ||||
Indefinite | Definite | |||
Nominative | parkour | parkouren | — | — |
Genitive | parkours | parkourens | — | — |
References
[edit]- English terms derived from Proto-Indo-European
- English terms derived from the Proto-Indo-European root *ḱers-
- English terms borrowed from French
- English terms derived from French
- English 2-syllable words
- English terms with IPA pronunciation
- English terms with audio links
- Rhymes:English/ʊə(ɹ)
- Rhymes:English/ʊə(ɹ)/2 syllables
- Rhymes:English/ɔː(ɹ)
- English lemmas
- English nouns
- English uncountable nouns
- en:Sports
- English verbs
- English transitive verbs
- English intransitive verbs
- English terms with quotations
- en:Athletics
- Finnish terms borrowed from French
- Finnish terms derived from French
- Finnish 3-syllable words
- Finnish terms with IPA pronunciation
- Rhymes:Finnish/ɑrkour
- Rhymes:Finnish/ɑrkour/3 syllables
- Finnish lemmas
- Finnish nouns
- Finnish risti-type nominals
- French terms derived from Latin
- French 2-syllable words
- French terms with IPA pronunciation
- French terms with audio links
- French lemmas
- French nouns
- French uncountable nouns
- French terms spelled with K
- French masculine nouns
- fr:Athletics
- Portuguese terms borrowed from French
- Portuguese unadapted borrowings from French
- Portuguese terms derived from French
- Portuguese 2-syllable words
- Portuguese terms with IPA pronunciation
- Portuguese 3-syllable words
- Portuguese lemmas
- Portuguese nouns
- Portuguese uncountable nouns
- Portuguese terms spelled with K
- Portuguese masculine nouns
- pt:Sports
- Spanish terms borrowed from French
- Spanish unadapted borrowings from French
- Spanish terms derived from French
- Spanish lemmas
- Spanish nouns
- Spanish uncountable nouns
- Spanish terms spelled with K
- Spanish masculine nouns
- es:Athletics
- Swedish lemmas
- Swedish nouns
- Swedish common-gender nouns