parkour
French, noun/paʁ.kuʁ/
parkour is spelled P-A-R-K-O-U-R (7 letters) and appears about once in every 3 million words in written French, the 61,385th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Parkour is a French masculine noun meaning “parkour, free running” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Discipline sportive combinant la course, le saut d’obstacles, l’escalade, etc”.
What does parkour mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculineparkour, free running
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
noun: 1. Discipline sportive combinant la course, le saut d’obstacles, l’escalade, etc.
The definition in the French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), in French.
Source: French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), dump of September 1, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org.
Forms of parkour
- parkours plural
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce parkour?
- /paʁ.kuʁ/
- \paʁ.kuʁ\
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (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 French?
parkour appears about once in every 3 million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).