parkour means 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. Lexicurio rates it Sui generis — a strength score of 93 out of 100.
Why this word is great
PARKOUR — [Noun] An athletic discipline of moving through an environment as efficiently as possible using running, jumping, and climbing. From French parkour, an altered spelling of parcours ("course, route"), from Medieval Latin percursus ("a running through"), from Latin percurrere ("to run through"). Unlike freerunning, which emphasizes artistic, acrobatic expression, or gymnastics, a codified sport in a controlled arena, parkour is a philosophy of pragmatic traversal. It is the scuff of palm on sun-warmed concrete, the percussive thud of a landing absorbed through the bones, and the sudden, silent cool of a shadowed ledge grasped mid-flight—a kinetic proof that the most direct line is not drawn on a map, but felt in the body's continuous negotiation of obstruction.
noun
- 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.“On Astypalea, the possibilities for parkour routines are endless, as illustrated by the variety of tricks each athlete unveiled at Art of Motion.”
verb
- To freerun; to use parkour (to move over).“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.”