Parkour is a non-competitive sport where practitioners seek to move through various novel environments as quickly and efficiently as possible. Runners carefully plan out routes on the fly, using their environment to overcome obstacles in their way. Because of this, male and female parkour practitioners are named traceurs and traceuses[for the French words for "one who traces."Although the popular image of parkour is of traceurs who jump from roof tops to roof tops, the art can be practiced anywhere and typically involves much less extreme conditions.[While you may not always have the opportunity to work through a complex parkour course, there are many ways you can practice necessary skills between runs