This is the combination of art and sport called ‘parkour’ — a relatively new sport of traversing environmental obstacles by running, climbing or leaping rapidly and efficiently.

Parkour enthusiasts, known as traceurs, pride themselves on fluid movements as they charge through urban landscapes by climbing, vaulting, crawling, swinging, leaping and balancing themselves in ...

DENVER — If you haven’t heard of “parkour,” you’re not alone. It is an intense activity that is a growing trend. Parkour involves jumping, tumbling, running and climbi… ...

Parkour, a French word meaning the art of movement, can be likened to an obstacle course, but the course is the everyday urban environment. Parkour participants, called traceurs , run, jump, climb and ...

Parkour’s elite broke out their best moves at Red Bull’s Art of Motion event. The Greek island of Astypalea provided a stunning backdrop for the freerunning competition.

Parkour emerged in France about a decade ago and is the physical art of moving fluidly through one’s environment by adapting movements to traverse obstacles.

Tricks, movement and creativity are a very big part of freerunning compared to parkour, where the focus is more on efficiency, speed and technique. Freerunning is a free-flowing art because it's ...

Parkour, founded by David Belle of France in the 1990s, is a discipline with a focus on quick, efficient movement over obstacles in the event of an emergency.

In 2009, Westword writer Joel Warner told the story of Colorado parkour pioneer Ryan Ford, who had recently opened the world's largest parkour gym, APEX Movement. Since then, the sport ...