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Parkour (sometimes also abbreviated to PK) or lart du déplacement (English: the art of moving) is a non competitive physical discipline of French origin in which participants run along a route, attempting to negotiate obstacles in the most efficient way possible, as if moving in an emergency situation, using skills such as jumping and climbing, or the more specific parkour moves. The object is to get from one place to another using only the human body and the objects in the environment around you. The obstacles can be anything in one's environment, but parkour is often seen practiced in urban areas because of the many suitable public structures that are accessible to most people, such as buildings and rails.

The official definition from the American Parkour website says, -Parkour is the physical discipline of training to overcome any obstacle within one's path by adapting one's movements to the environment.-

Parkour practitioners are often called traceurs if male, or traceuses if female.