The story
- French · borrowed fromparkour
- English todayparkour
Borrowed from French parkour, altered spelling of parcours (“course, route”).
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Today it 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. Full definition →
Borrowed from French parkour, altered spelling of parcours (“course, route”).
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.