parkourとは 意味・読み方・使い方

語源

Borrowed from French parkour, altered spelling of parcours (“course, route”).

発音

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA: /pɑːˈkʊə/, /pɑːˈkɔː/
• (General American) IPA: /pɑɹˈkʊɹ/, (pour–poor merger) /pɑɹˈkoɹ/
• 韻: -ʊə(ɹ), -ɔː(ɹ)

名詞

parkour (uncountable)

1. (sports) 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, flipping, and other similar physical movements.
   • 2022 June 16, Issy Ronald, “Meet the parkour athletes defying fear and gravity at Red Bull Art of Motion”, in CNN‎, archived from the original on 26 June 2022:

     On Astypalea, the possibilities for parkour routines are endless, as illustrated by the variety of tricks each athlete unveiled at Art of Motion.

派生語

動詞

parkour (third-person singular simple present parkours, present participle parkouring, simple past and past participle parkoured)

1. (sports, transitive, intransitive) To freerun; to use parkour (to move over).
   • 2008 March 24, Tim Bennison, quotee, “Prototype [preview]”, in Xbox 360‎:

     It's about running at 100mph through the world, then parkouring up an exploding cube van that's 100ft in the air, bouncing off it and hitting the wall and keeping on going.

   • 2009 October 19, Stephen Davies, Hacking Timbuktu, Andersen Press, →ISBN, →OL, ch. 24:

     They had parkoured seven roofs, clambered down a mango tree, and crossed over the bridge in the back of a donkey cart, unnoticed even by the driver.

   • 2013 March 25, Aaron Lindberg, “Death Defying Photos Of Mustang Wanted”, in Fstoppers‎, archived from the original on 27 June 2014:

     The daring Ukrainian can be found on his website dangling off of tall buildings with one hand, scaling bridges and parkouring through urban landscapes in search of a personal thrill.

   • For more quotations using this term, see Citations:parkour.

参考

• free running
• traceur