: the sport of traversing environmental obstacles by running, climbing, or leaping rapidly and efficiently
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Ubisoft Quebec brings back the parkour up and down buttons and, combined with the grappling hook, the movement system feels like a streamlined version of that in Assassin's Creed: Syndicate.
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John Yoo and John Shu, Newsweek, 23 Jan. 2025
The hundreds-deep stunt team had myriad specialties — including motorcyclists, stunt-car drivers, and experts in explosives, parkour, and acrobatics — and the sequence involved wire-work for both the performers and their vehicles, including the Octo-bike.
—Roxana Hadadi, Vulture, 27 Feb. 2025
Ubisoft started development on Mirage as an expansion to Valhalla before turning it into a full game, which paid homage to the series' roots by focusing more on social stealth and parkour.
—Barbara A. Perry, Newsweek, 28 Jan. 2025
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.
—Cheyenne Roundtree, Rolling Stone, 26 Feb. 2025
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John Yoo and John Shu, Newsweek, 23 Jan. 2025
The hundreds-deep stunt team had myriad specialties — including motorcyclists, stunt-car drivers, and experts in explosives, parkour, and acrobatics — and the sequence involved wire-work for both the performers and their vehicles, including the Octo-bike.
—Roxana Hadadi, Vulture, 27 Feb. 2025
Ubisoft started development on Mirage as an expansion to Valhalla before turning it into a full game, which paid homage to the series' roots by focusing more on social stealth and parkour.
—Barbara A. Perry, Newsweek, 28 Jan. 2025
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.
—Cheyenne Roundtree, Rolling Stone, 26 Feb. 2025
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“Parkour.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/parkour. Accessed 25 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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