Parkour
German, noun/paʁˈkuːɐ̯/
Parkour is spelled P-A-R-K-O-U-R (7 letters) and appears about once in every 2 million words in written German, the 56,856th most frequent German word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Parkour is a German masculine noun meaning “parkour” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The German Wiktionary defines it as “Sportart, deren Ziel es ist, nur mit den Fähigkeiten des eigenen Körpers Hindernisse zu überwinden”.
What does Parkour mean in English?
noun
- 1
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Source: English Wiktionary, German section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How German dictionaries define it
noun: 1. Sportart, deren Ziel es ist, nur mit den Fähigkeiten des eigenen Körpers Hindernisse zu überwinden
The definition in the German Wiktionary, in German.
Source: German Wiktionary, dump of September 1, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org.
Forms of Parkour
- Parkours genitive
Source: English Wiktionary and German Wiktionary (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce Parkour?
- /paʁˈkuːɐ̯/
- [paʁˈkuːɐ̯]
Sources: English Wiktionary, German Wiktionary (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to Parkour
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is Parkour in German?
Parkour appears about once in every 2 million words in written German.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).