: the sport of traversing environmental obstacles by running, climbing, or leaping rapidly and efficiently
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From intricate dance dance routines to impressive parkour moves, the internet is awash with robots behaving bizarrely.
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Mack Degeurin, Popular Science, 16 Jan. 2025
To counter that, cities during the American Revolution left a lot to be desired in terms of navigation and parkour.
—John Mac Ghlionn, Newsweek, 13 Jan. 2025
Putting its hero through paces that embrace everything from parkour to parasailing, Rodolphe Lauga’s feature is not dull.
—Dennis Harvey, Variety, 13 Jan. 2025
His early uploads were crude by today’s standards—some gymnastics tricks, some parkour, and some mildly anarchic silliness (for example, a 2009 clip of Hobson drinking raw eggs).
—Cal Newport, The New Yorker, 8 Jan. 2025
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Mack Degeurin, Popular Science, 16 Jan. 2025
To counter that, cities during the American Revolution left a lot to be desired in terms of navigation and parkour.
—John Mac Ghlionn, Newsweek, 13 Jan. 2025
Putting its hero through paces that embrace everything from parkour to parasailing, Rodolphe Lauga’s feature is not dull.
—Dennis Harvey, Variety, 13 Jan. 2025
His early uploads were crude by today’s standards—some gymnastics tricks, some parkour, and some mildly anarchic silliness (for example, a 2009 clip of Hobson drinking raw eggs).
—Cal Newport, The New Yorker, 8 Jan. 2025
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“Parkour.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/parkour. Accessed 24 Jan. 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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