Hobby vs Parkour - What's the difference?
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An activity that one enjoys doing in one's spare time.
(horses) An extinct breed of horse native to the British Isles, also known as the
Any of four species of small falcons in the genus Falco'', especially ''Falco subbuteo .
* 2011 , Thomas Penn, Winter King , Penguin 2012, p. 323:
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.
To freerun; to use parkour (to move over).
* {{quote-magazine
, date = 2008-03-24
, title = Prototype [preview]
, magazine = Xbox 360
, quotee = Tim Bennison
, url = http://m.oxm.co.uk/3462/previews/prototype
, passage = 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.
}}
* {{quote-book
, date = 2009-10-19
, first = Stephen
, last = Davies
, title = Hacking Timbuktu
, publisher = Andersen Press
, ol = 24091744M
, isbn = 9781842708842
, section = ch. 24
, passage = 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.
}}
* {{quote-web
, date = 2013-03-25
, title = Death Defying Photos Of Mustang Wanted
, first = Aaron
, last = Lindberg
, site = Fstoppers
, url = http://fstoppers.com/death-defying-photos-of-mustang-wanted
, passage = 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.
}}
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As nouns the difference between hobby and parkour
is that hobby is an activity that one enjoys doing in one's spare time while parkour is 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.As a proper noun Hobby
is {{surname|A=An|English|from=given names}.As a verb parkour is
to freerun; to use parkour (to move over).hobby
English
Etymology 1
Shortened from (hobby-horse), from (etyl) hoby, hobyn, . The meaning of hobby-horse shifted from "small horse, pony" to "child's toy riding horse" to "favorite pastime or avocation" with the connecting notion being "activity that doesn't go anywhere". Possibly originally from a proper name for a horse, a diminutive of (Robert) or (Robin) (compare (dobbin)).Noun
(wikipedia hobby) (hobbies)- I like to collect stamps from different countries as a hobby .
Synonyms
* (activity done for enjoyment in spare time ): avocation, pastimeDerived terms
* hobbyistEtymology 2
From (etyl) hobet, from , diminutive of (hobe).Noun
(hobbies)- He hawked – from nearby Esher, Richard Fox sent a servant with a hobby , which Henry received enthusiastically – and hunted, sending a present of freshly slaughtered deer to Princess Mary.