I THOUGHT I might be in trouble when my very fit parkour teacher, Ben, told us he loved parkour because something always scares him. Then he announced the day’s theme: “High to low.” I started to ...

KING OF PRUSSIA, Pa. (WPVI) -- Celebrity crazed parkour has people of all shapes and sizes giving this sort of 'grown up jungle gym' a spin. 'Parkour is overcoming mental obstacles through physical ...

New York City is Mike Araujo‘s jungle gym. He zips along ledges, leaps over stairwells and, in a pinch, backflips off walls. It’s all in a day’s work (and play) for the 19-year-old from Queens, who ...

A grown man swings on an oversize jungle gym while another jumps head first off a building and tumbles onto a crash pad. In the background, the less experienced practice jumping over foam blocks and ...

ROSSLYN, Va. — Gateway Park in Rosslyn, Virginia, temporarily turned into a giant playground for adults Saturday. This weekend’s parkour festival, called “Beast Coast,” is one of the largest in the ...

Parkour, the free-wheeling outdoor sport of vaulting, bouncing, jumping and flipping through the urban jungle, has inspired a new breed of indoor fitness centers where buildings are boxes, sidewalks ...

Cicero, N.Y.—Looking to channel your inner Spider-Man? See a jungle gym where others see a park art installment? Then you might be a parkour athlete, but let’s face it, climbing and jumping all over ...

Last year, Colorado parkour pioneers Ryan Ford and Mat Marshall opened APEX Movement, the world’s largest parkour gym, in downtown Denver. Now that the record’s been overtaken by other locations, they ...

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Andy Cousins jumps onto a wall that is almost double his 6-foot-2-inch height. He scrambles to the top, vaults over a rail and lands gracefully on two feet on the concrete sidewalk below. No, Cousins ...

DOHA (Qatar) — Three friends perform synchronised backflips off a dry stone fountain near one of Doha's top luxury hotels, an unusual sight in the normally staid Gulf city. As the sun sets over the ...