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Parlour vs Parkour - What's the difference?

parlour | parkour |

As nouns the difference between parlour and parkour

is that parlour is standard spelling of from=British|parlor|lang=en 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 verb parkour is

to freerun; to use parkour (to move over).

parlour

English

Noun

(en noun)
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  • *:At half-past nine on this Saturday evening, the parlour of the Salutation Inn, High Holborn, contained most of its customary visitors.In former days every tavern of repute kept such a room for its own select circle, a club, or society, of habitués, who met every evening, for a pipe and a cheerful glass.

    • parkour

    English

    (wikipedia parkour)

    Noun

    (-)
  • 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.

    • Verb

  • 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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    • See also

    * free running

    Synonyms

    * (sport) traceur * (wikipedia "parkour") ----