WordReference Random House Unabridged Dictionary of American English © 2025
par•course
(pär′côrs′, -cōrs′),USA pronunciation n.
- Sportan outdoor exercise track or course, esp. for joggers, equipped with a series of stations along the way where one is to stop and perform a specific exercise.
- English sense reflects French parcours du combattant military obstacle course, or a like phrase partial translation of French parcours course, route, circuit, Old French: calque on Medieval Latin, Late Latin percursus, noun, nominal derivative of percurrere (see per-, course)
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