What is Parkour?

Answer 1

Parkour is the art of using solely your body to navigate from point A to B in the least time possible, which involves besides leaping, climbing and sprinting, various unusual and complex movements to overcome obstacles. It started off as part of French military training and has since evolved as a sport, founded by Sebastian Foucan and David Belle, to encompass a wide variety of techniques, philosophies and exercises.

There are several Parkour groups connecting online as well as on ground, and a quick Google search may yield some results for your area as well. Or you could look up some amazing demonstrations on YouTube.

Parkour enjoys the devotion of many die hard fans across the world and has been the source for much inspiration.

Parkour - Invincible Surge

A distinguished demonstration in the sport transcends to the level of sublime art. Witnessing a superlative performance can bring one to instantly realize, and marvel at, the immense capacity endowed by nature upon the human form to negotiate complex terrain with grace and feral speed, a capacity with limits set far ahead of where our sensibilities suggest. To watch a Parkour artist is to behold an uncommon purity of kinetic force capable of cutting through the most obviously impervious features and sections of everyday urban terrain...

Basically its free running

Answer 2

Parkour is the art of getting from one place to another in the quickest way possible.

Answer 3

The word 'parkour' derives from 'parcours du combattant' which is/was the classic obstacle course method of military training constructed by George Hebert.