Parkour

Founder of Parkour - David Belle

Parkour (sometimes abbreviated PK) is the non-competitive sport originating in France of traversing mainly urban landscapes by running, climbing and jumping. Participants run along a route, attempting to navigate obstacles in the most efficient way possible, using only their bodies. Skills such as vaulting, rolling, swinging and wall scaling are employed. Parkour can be practiced anywhere, but areas dense with obstacles are preferable and it is most commonly practiced in urban areas.

A practitioner of parkour is called a "traceur", which is most likely derived from Parisian slang "tracer" which means "to hurry" or "to move quickly". In proper French, traceur is an adjective qualifying something that leaves a trace or a trail behind it.

In practice, a traceur may use several different names interchangeably for parkour, including freerunning or "l'art du déplacement", even though these terms refer to distinct parts of the discipline. While parkour and l'art du déplacement aim to enable the practitioner to move quickly and creatively past obstacles, freerunning includes the use of tricking moves such as aerial rotations and spins.