: any of various Chinese martial arts and related disciplines that are practiced especially for self-defense, exercise, and spiritual growth
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Last summer, the French franchise player spent time at China’s historic Shaolin Temple, shaving his head, practicing meditation and kung fu, and dribbling a basketball up a mountain for four hours straight.
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Tiana Randall,
Forbes.com,
29 May 2026
Ming-Yu Liu, a vice president at Nvidia’s Cosmos Lab, shared a more cinematic analogy, pointing to The Matrix, in which the main character learns kung fu inside a simulated world.
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Sharon Goldman,
Fortune,
20 May 2026
But some movies need kung fu, a more Chinese style of fighting.
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Angela Andaloro,
PEOPLE,
8 May 2026
In that seminal kung fu film’s climactic scene, Lee and Norris’ characters face off inside the Colosseum in Rome.
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Daniel Arkin,
NBC news,
20 Mar. 2026
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Tiana Randall,
Forbes.com,
29 May 2026
Ming-Yu Liu, a vice president at Nvidia’s Cosmos Lab, shared a more cinematic analogy, pointing to The Matrix, in which the main character learns kung fu inside a simulated world.
—
Sharon Goldman,
Fortune,
20 May 2026
But some movies need kung fu, a more Chinese style of fighting.
—
Angela Andaloro,
PEOPLE,
8 May 2026
In that seminal kung fu film’s climactic scene, Lee and Norris’ characters face off inside the Colosseum in Rome.
—
Daniel Arkin,
NBC news,
20 Mar. 2026
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“Kung fu.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/kung%20fu. Accessed 2 Jul. 2026.
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