parkouring

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A form of parkour — 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.

Scrabble 17

Meanings

verb
  1. gerundparticiplepresentpresent participle and gerund of parkour

    2008, PC gamer: Volume 15, link Wandering the irradiated wastelands of Fallout 3 has a slimming effect, and parkouring about in Prince of Persia or Mirror's Edge tones your calves, we're told.

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    2006, Royal Canadian Geographical Society, Canadian geographic: Volume 126, Issues 1-6, link They also fit in some activities, participating in a shoreline cleanup in Victoria and bungee jumping, dirtsurfing and parkouring (a type of urban acrobatics) in Edmonton.

    ...parkouring through a HDB estate.

    2007 Sep, GameAxis Unwired, page 88
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