parkour
English
/pɑːˈkʊə/, /pɑɹˈkʊɹ/
noun
Definitions
- (sport) 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, and other similar physical movements.
Etymology
Root from Proto-Indo-European *ḱers- (run, hurry).
Origin
Proto-Indo-European
*ḱers-
Gloss
run, hurry
Concept
Semantic Field
Motion
Ontological Category
Action/Process
Kanji
走
Emoji
🎽 🏃 🏃♀️ 🏃♂️ 💨
Timeline
Distribution of cognates by language
Geogrpahic distribution of cognates
Cognates and derived terms
- cursus English
- curule English
- incursive English
- occurrent English
- parkoured English
- recur English
- recurse English
- recursively English
- recursivity English
- reoccur English
- reoccurrence English
- -torium Latin
- carrus Latin
- carrūca Latin
- currere Latin
- curriculum Latin
- currilis Latin
- currulis Latin
- cursio Latin
- curso Latin
- cursor Latin
- cursorius Latin
- cursus Latin
- curulis Latin
- discurro Latin
- discurrō Latin
- discursivus Latin
- discursus Latin
- incurrere Latin
- incurro Latin
- incursio Latin
- incursionem, incursio Latin
- occurro Latin
- occurrō Latin
- percurro Latin
- recurrens Latin
- recurrentia Latin
- recurro Latin
- recursiō Latin
- recursus Latin
- succurrēre Latin
- viam Latin
- steppicursore Italian
- ἐπίκουρος Ancient Greek
- *ḱers- Proto-Indo-European
- *ḱr̥sós Proto-Indo-European
- *hrussą Proto-Germanic
- *hurskaz Proto-Germanic
- *hurskijaną Proto-Germanic
- *hurzaną Proto-Germanic
- socouren Middle English
- coreor Old French
- occurrence Middle French
- *karros Proto-Celtic
- *korzō Proto-Italic