: the sport of traversing environmental obstacles by running, climbing, or leaping rapidly and efficiently
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The private Christian school seemed promising, with an all-star basketball team, a choir program that funneled into West’s Sunday Services and a forward-thinking curriculum that included parkour classes.
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Cheyenne Roundtree, Rolling Stone, 26 Feb. 2025
Sparks appear to fly between the pair as the Love Island host shows off her parkour skills.
—Glenn Garner, Deadline, 23 Feb. 2025
Protagonist Kyle Crane escapes brutal experimentation and seeks revenge amidst the chaos in this first-person parkour action game.
—Gabriel Zamora, PCMAG, 22 Jan. 2025
Assassin’s Creed Nexus Mapping a full console style parkour game onto VR sounds like a recipe for nausea but this is a remarkable success at bringing the appeal of the console games to Meta Quest.
—Andrew Williams, Forbes, 25 Dec. 2024
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Cheyenne Roundtree, Rolling Stone, 26 Feb. 2025
Sparks appear to fly between the pair as the Love Island host shows off her parkour skills.
—Glenn Garner, Deadline, 23 Feb. 2025
Protagonist Kyle Crane escapes brutal experimentation and seeks revenge amidst the chaos in this first-person parkour action game.
—Gabriel Zamora, PCMAG, 22 Jan. 2025
Assassin’s Creed Nexus Mapping a full console style parkour game onto VR sounds like a recipe for nausea but this is a remarkable success at bringing the appeal of the console games to Meta Quest.
—Andrew Williams, Forbes, 25 Dec. 2024
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“Parkour.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/parkour. Accessed 3 Mar. 2025.
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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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