: the sport of traversing environmental obstacles by running, climbing, or leaping rapidly and efficiently
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The experience will also include a lavish after-party at LIV in Miami Beach, all while Fortnite players engage in scavenger hunts, mini-games, and parkour levels.
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Mackenzie Cummings-Grady, Billboard, 31 July 2025
World Chase Tag has transformed the classic game of tag into a high-intensity sport, featuring parkour athletes competing in short, intense chases.
—John Cairney, Sportico.com, 24 May 2025
The doc captures the U.K. parkour team who, not only risk their lives with their stunts, but also beautifully capture the footage.
—Selome Hailu, Variety, 14 Mar. 2025
Beneath the scope, the spectacle, the parkour and the thrills is a baseline for the most essential kind of human story—about people searching for purpose, struggling with questions of identity and destiny and faith.
—ArsTechnica, 18 July 2025
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Mackenzie Cummings-Grady, Billboard, 31 July 2025
World Chase Tag has transformed the classic game of tag into a high-intensity sport, featuring parkour athletes competing in short, intense chases.
—John Cairney, Sportico.com, 24 May 2025
The doc captures the U.K. parkour team who, not only risk their lives with their stunts, but also beautifully capture the footage.
—Selome Hailu, Variety, 14 Mar. 2025
Beneath the scope, the spectacle, the parkour and the thrills is a baseline for the most essential kind of human story—about people searching for purpose, struggling with questions of identity and destiny and faith.
—ArsTechnica, 18 July 2025
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“Parkour.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/parkour. Accessed 7 Aug. 2025.
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parkour
noun
par·kour
pär-ˈku̇r 
ˈpär-ˌku̇r
: the sport of traversing environmental obstacles by running, climbing, or leaping rapidly and efficiently
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