: the sport of traversing environmental obstacles by running, climbing, or leaping rapidly and efficiently
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Every six months or so, Boston Dynamics put out a new Atlas video, with the robot running or jumping or dancing or doing parkour, leveraging its powerful hydraulics to impress us every single time.
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IEEE Spectrum, 16 Apr. 2024
In a nutshell, parkour centers around getting from one point to another in the fastest way possible and often involves swiftly crawling and leaping through obstacles along the way.
—Popular Science, 14 Mar. 2024
Since then, he's proved his skills range much farther than punching and parkour.
—Christian Holub, EW.com, 16 Feb. 2023
Plus, there are still plenty of side objectives to explore, parkour and climbing challenges, and historical footnotes to find, explaining the location and culture of each era.
—WIRED, 16 Nov. 2023
Similarly, some of the parkour elements are a bit off—a move that’s meant to fling you up to higher ledges more often throws you sideways, while the move to leap horizontal gaps rarely connects—but level design is considerate enough to almost always have multiple ways to reach objectives.
—WIRED, 16 Nov. 2023
In January 2020, Scobell shared footage of himself performing some next-level parkour in Newport Beach, California.
—Emma Kershaw, Peoplemag, 12 Nov. 2023
The kids participate in activities ranging from parkour camp to soccer and theater.
—Emma Hinchliffe, Fortune, 6 Nov. 2023
The researchers used two-stage reinforcement learning to train the parkour algorithm.
—Harry Guinness, Popular Science, 5 Oct. 2023
IEEE Spectrum, 16 Apr. 2024
In a nutshell, parkour centers around getting from one point to another in the fastest way possible and often involves swiftly crawling and leaping through obstacles along the way.
—Popular Science, 14 Mar. 2024
Since then, he's proved his skills range much farther than punching and parkour.
—Christian Holub, EW.com, 16 Feb. 2023
Plus, there are still plenty of side objectives to explore, parkour and climbing challenges, and historical footnotes to find, explaining the location and culture of each era.
—WIRED, 16 Nov. 2023
Similarly, some of the parkour elements are a bit off—a move that’s meant to fling you up to higher ledges more often throws you sideways, while the move to leap horizontal gaps rarely connects—but level design is considerate enough to almost always have multiple ways to reach objectives.
—WIRED, 16 Nov. 2023
In January 2020, Scobell shared footage of himself performing some next-level parkour in Newport Beach, California.
—Emma Kershaw, Peoplemag, 12 Nov. 2023
The kids participate in activities ranging from parkour camp to soccer and theater.
—Emma Hinchliffe, Fortune, 6 Nov. 2023
The researchers used two-stage reinforcement learning to train the parkour algorithm.
—Harry Guinness, Popular Science, 5 Oct. 2023
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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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