How to Use parkour in a Sentence

parkour

noun
  • There will also be a parkour course, a bounce house, and more.
    — BostonGlobe.com, 8 Sep. 2023
  • Rue finds out that Fez used parkour to escape prison.
    — Armando Tinoco, Deadline, 31 May 2026
  • My son is a sweet, fun-loving boy who loves jokes, reading and parkour.
    — Nicole Roder, Washington Post, 9 July 2020
  • Since then, he's proved his skills range much farther than punching and parkour.
    — Christian Holub, EW.com, 16 Feb. 2023
  • The crowd for parkour was baking in the sun, but having a blast doing it.
    — Joseph Goodman | [email protected], al, 11 July 2022
  • So the parkour athletes aren't perfect stand-ins for treetop apes.
    — Elizabeth Preston, Discover Magazine, 2 Dec. 2016
  • Ruslan was a fan of parkour, the sport of running over and around obstacles.
    — Isabel Coles, WSJ, 16 May 2022
  • Those who do parkour, gymnasts and rock climbers tend to do well in the competitions.
    — Emmett Hall, sun-sentinel.com, 28 Aug. 2020
  • The title grants him enough parkour powers to run up the speechless invaders and lop their heads off.
    — Steven Strom, Ars Technica, 10 Apr. 2018
  • There are ropes courses, a zip line, ninja warrior challenges and parkour.
    — John Pana, cleveland, 29 Apr. 2021
  • In these games the focus can instead be on parkour, role-playing, escape rooms and hide-and-seek.
    — Nina Turner, Newsweek, 29 Oct. 2024
  • Sure, Citi Bike parkour is a thing, as anyone who follows @citibikeboyz knows.
    — John Surico, Curbed, 24 July 2023
  • Bart's doing like parkour off of buildings and stuff like that, and spinning, and doing all sorts of crazy of stuff.
    — Chancellor Agard, EW.com, 12 July 2021
  • What comes after is a journey of self-discovery, finding her place in the world, and lots of parkour.
    — George Yang, Variety, 23 Jan. 2023
  • The skill ceiling relies solely on game sense, not gimmicks like parkour moves or crafting.
    — Thomas G. Moukawsher, Newsweek, 12 Dec. 2024
  • And where better to set a thrilling parkour sequence than the memorable rooftops of Paris?
    — Frank Scheck, HollywoodReporter, 20 Nov. 2025
  • Some pretty awesome quadruped parkour here—haven’t seen the wall running before.
    — IEEE Spectrum, 30 May 2025
  • The people still living in the city hold parkour tournaments to trade supplies.
    — Stacey Grant, Seventeen, 14 Apr. 2023
  • Sparks appear to fly between the pair as the Love Island host shows off her parkour skills.
    — Glenn Garner, Deadline, 23 Feb. 2025
  • Kelley teaches a form of natural movement with roots in parkour, and his classes take place in parks.
    — Nicole Tsong, The Seattle Times, 23 Aug. 2018
  • That’s not to say Gollum has no sense of challenge or the parkour segments are badly designed.
    — Josh Broadwell, Rolling Stone, 25 May 2023
  • The parkour-like athleticism of the net catchers comes with the second pass through a neighborhood.
    — James Gorman, New York Times, 22 July 2019
  • Atlas, the company’s headless humanoid robot, can go for a jog or do parkour.
    — Wired, 26 Oct. 2020
  • Since switching to parkour in 2015, Sollfrank hasn't looked back.
    — Ben Morse, CNN, 22 Dec. 2020
  • Her stunt double was Conrad Weitzel, a parkour athlete from Phoenix.
    — San Diego Union-Tribune, 1 Oct. 2019
  • But a parkour sequence that included Bond fighting on a crane high above a construction site?
    — Samantha Highfill, EW.com, 22 Sep. 2021
  • That robot, which filled observers with equal parts awe and terror, weighed in at 330 pounds and could pull off black flips and parkour moves.
    — Mack Degeurin, Popular Science, 31 Oct. 2024
  • As a result, the city is a battlefield for young players of parkour-like competitions.
    — Marisa Lascala, Good Housekeeping, 10 May 2022
  • Stealth, action, and parkour — Gollum’s other half — just aren’t strong enough to carry the gameplay.
    — Josh Broadwell, Rolling Stone, 25 May 2023
  • His social media feed shows him street skiing, a niche genre that is best described as a cross between skateboarding, parkour and alpine sports.
    — Don Riddell, CNN, 17 Mar. 2025

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