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Academic Parkour

When you try to write an academic paper, but none of the sentences in your paragraph are cohesive. Academic parkour is recognized by the act of jumping between different conclusions without knowing where you'll end up.
"I was up all night doing academic parkour, man"
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Gorilla Parkour Mode

When a child is super angry and does everything in its will to succeed in their goal.
Bryson entered Gorilla Parkour Mode because he got no candy for lunch.
by SwagCappe May 9, 2023
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Parlor

Someone who breathes so hard it sound like they're snoring, yet they're wide awake!
"Hi, im your new teacher, do your work while i sit here and parlor all damn period "

"-__-"
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Parlor

I went to Giggles parlor to see a ho to get me some poonani
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Parkour

1. The most pretentious douchy way to travel.
2. The mistaken belief that every surface has the traction needed to stick your landing.
3. Natural selection.
1. I have my own parkour channel on youtube with 1 million views.
2. Through parkour, I can travel across moss covered roofs of london and survive.
3. Parkour has helped us eliminated some of dumbest people in the world.
by wakkadoodooo November 3, 2016
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Parkour

The art/discipline, created by David Belle, in which participants (Men = Traceurs, Women = Traceuses) find the most efficient route from point A to point B by running, jumping, vaulting, and rolling obstacles that get in their way.

Not to be confused with Free Running, which is about fluidity rather than efficiency.
The Traceur used Parkour to get from his house to the train station.

Parkour is the art of movement.
by Setnochima December 24, 2008
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parkour

Parkour (also called Le Parkour, PK, or free running) is a quasi-sport in which participants attempt to clear all obstacles in their path in the most fluid manner possible.
A traceur is a participant of parkour. The term free-runner has been commonly adopted by the media following the use of the term by Sebastien Foucan in Jump London. The same program led to the use of another term, free-running. The term free-running has been widely used by journalists to describe parkour-like activity, but which commonly features more emphasis on 'showy' moves than are a feature of genuine parkour.

The ultimate goal in parkour is to ‘flow’ along one’s path, for the entire journey to be as one fluid movement with no pauses or breaks. A principal rule of parkour is to never go backwards. Traceurs believe that there is a path to every obstacle which is achieved through forward movement.

The magnitude and technicality of a move in parkour are secondary to the flow and beauty of it. Explains Jerome Ben Aoues, one of the traceurs featured in the acclaimed Channel 4 documentary Jump London, “The most important thing really is the harmony between you and the obstacle; the movement has to be elegant, that's what will make it prettier. Length and distance only add to the beauty of the move, if you manage to pass over the fence elegantly that's beautiful, rather than saying ‘I jumped the lot.’ What's the point in that?”

To many, parkour is an extreme sport, to others a discipline more comparable to martial arts, to others an art form akin to dance, a way to encapsulate human movement in its most beautiful form. Parkour also inspires freedom; being free in an urban environment designed to trap, not restricted by railings, staircases, even buildings. (See Situationist). It is for many people a way of life.
by www.valleyfreerunners.com October 1, 2005
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