free runnern.
/ˌfriː ˈrʌnə/, U.S. /ˌfri ˈrənər/ A participant in free running. Cf. free running n.
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2003 Broadcast 14 July 2/1 A four-man team from France called ‘the free runners’ who will scale the sights of London in what is being dubbed as ‘the most extreme tour of London’.
2005 Sunday Times 17 July (Style section) 37/2 It looks like skateboarding without a board, or bungee-jumping without a rope, and is at its most exciting when freerunners get together to ‘jam’.
2009 J. Elam & S. Yohn Blown Coverage iv. 26 ‘What do you call those dudes who go running and jumping all over buildings and parking garages and stuff?’ ‘Free runners?’
This is a new entry (OED Third Edition, November 2010; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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