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Parkour is based on general principles of survival: Should one ever need to get from Point A to Point B as fast as possible, the shortest distance is always a straight line. The goal, therefore, is to get past, over, under, or through various obstacles without wasting any time. And it just happened that Évry's central agora is an incredible mishmash of stairs, decks, catwalks and roofs at different heights -- and thus, the best way to go in a straight line from A to B in Évry was jumping and running through obstacles.
 
Parkour practitioners (called by gender-specific nouns, following the original French; a male Parkour runner is a ''traceur'', a female is a ''traceuse''; referring to multiple practitioners uses ''traceurs'') run their environment like an obstacle course: vaulting obstructions, leaping gaps, running up walls, [[Wall Jump|Wall Jumps]], and otherwise taking wild shortcuts. Although commonly associated with cities, Parkour can be used to negotiate any type of environment. Traceurs will tell you their discipline becomes a mindset over time. They learn to unconsciously scan their surroundings for routes and movements. Think [[The Tetris Effect]] after playing ''[[Assassin's Creed]]'' or ''[[MirrorsMirror's Edge]]''. Plus, it not only [[Rule of Cool|looks damn cool]], but is [[Awesome Yet Practical]], and may prove to become a more widely practiced discipline similar to martial arts.
 
The obvious example of Parkour usage is moving from point A to B, but the core idea is simply to make yourself more practically agile and more able to overcome physical obstacles. A mundane example is accidentally throwing something (e.g. a football) on a rooftop and needing to recover it. A practitioner of Parkour would be able to get onto the roof, get the object and get down safely.
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* The characters Izaya Orihara and Shizuo Heiwajima from ''[[Durarara]]'' practice Parkour, or something very much akin to it. The former learnt it to avoid Shizuo's many attempts to kill him very much dead, and the latter in order to catch the former and kill him very much dead.
* A much less flippy- and martial-artsy-version occurs in ''[[Eyeshield 21]]''. Sena, and a few other running backs, have the ability to foresee the quickest and safest abilities to get to the goal. Thus, it involves [[Mobstacle Course|running in between people, cutting back, slowing your speed, etc]]. One of Sena's contemporaries, Patrick "Panther" Spencer, is fond of running across rooftops as his morning exercise.
* In the ''[[Gundam 00: a WakeningAwakening of Thethe Trailblazer (Film)|Gundam 00]]'' movie, Hallelujah uses Parkour to defeat alien-possessed vehicles. He knew he was screwed when the helicopter came after him, though.
 
 
== Comics -- Books ==
* Warren Ellis' ''[[Global Frequency]]'' centered one story around it.
* ''[[MirrorsMirror's Edge]]'', based on the video game of the same name.
* Technically speaking, [[Spider -Man]] takes it [[Up to Eleven]]. Because when you can jump four stories, swing on webs, and stick to walls, the fastest route from A to B can change significantly. Doesn't change that parkour is essentially one of Spidey's powers.
** So would that be [[Incredibly Lame Pun|Le Peter Parkour]]?
** There is a famous Spidey story where he is forced to track a villain to Suburbia and basically relies on free-running to get around because web-slinging doesn't work well on one-story houses.
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== Films -- Animation ==
* Although the animators based it more on surfing and skateboarding movements, Disney's ''[[Tarzan]]'' movie has the title hero do lots of Parkour-style movement through the jungle.
* Probably an example before this style, but in the claymation ''[[Santa Claus Isis Comin' to Town]]'', Kris Kringle uses some fairly sweet moves to escape the Burgermeister Meisterburger's troops.
{{quote| '''Troop:''' He climbs like a squirrel, leaps like a deer, and is as slippery as a seal!}}
* ''[[Resident Evil: Degeneration]]'', a CGI movie based off the series, has Leon do an incredible Parkour sequence near the end of the movie to escape a [[Self-Destruct Mechanism]].
* Parkour seems to be the main mode of locomotion for the stray boys Black and White in ''[[Tekkon Kinkreet]]''.
* ''[[Batman: Under the Red Hood]]'' has some of this while Batman and Nightwing are chasing Red Hood.
* Shows up, weirdly enough, in the ''[[Toy Story]]'' movies (particularly 3), with Woody, Buzz and Jessie pulling off borderline ninja moves.
* In the DVD commentary for Shane Acker's ''[[9 (Animation)|Nine]]'' -- the feature film -- it's stated that the movements of resident badass 7 were heavily inspired by this, as well as skateboarding and watching female athletes perform other various sports activities. It shows.
* The [[Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles]] always had a bit of Parkour in them, but TMNT, the CGI movie, has them doing full on parkour runs of the city. Even more impressive is that each turtle has his own preference and style of moving.
* In [[The Hunchback of Notre Dame (Disney film)|Disney's The Hunchback of Notre Dame]], Quasimodo pulls off a lot of neat parkour-style moves on the rooftops of the cathedral.
 
== Films -- Live-Action ==
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* Briefly seen, in an effects-exaggerated way, in the late-1980s feature-length adaptation of Mike Jittlov's ''The Wizard of Speed and Time''.
* The trailer for ''[[The Spirit]]'' shows him doing this over rooftops. Of course, he was also good at this in the comics.
* ''[[James Bond (Filmfilm)|James Bond]]'' film ''[[Casino Royale (Film)|Casino Royale]]'' features a Parkour chase through a construction site. A bomb-maker runs from Bond using Le Parkour techniques, whereas Bond goes for a [[There Was a Door|more straightforward approach]] of crashing through walls. They cast the co-founder of the movement (Sebastian Foucan, who originated the "free-running" branch of the discipline) as the bomb maker just so they could do that sequence with maximum awesome.
** ''[[Quantum of Solace (Film)|Quantum of Solace]]'' also has a Parkour chase with Bond chasing {{spoiler|a double agent}} over the rooftops of Siena.
* The French film ''Yamakasi'' revolves around a group of ''traceurs'' stealing from rich people's houses, in an attempt to pay for a young imitator's surgical operation. The film itself is a big showcase of Le Parkour.
* The French movie ''[[Banlieue 13]]'' (dubbed as ''District B-13'') makes liberal use of Le Parkour, and features a co-founder of Parkour in the co-main role.
* Parkour on film is definitely [[Older Than They Think]], with instances and influences traceable to at least the 1930s with the crowning backstage sequence in ''[[Marx Brothers|A Night at the Opera]]''
* [[Buster Keaton]] was the master before Parkour [[Unbuilt Trope|was built]]. Climbing around buildings and jumping from ledge to ledge with no safety restraint was a big part of his [[Silent Films|silent films]] in the twenties. [[Ninja]] building climbing stunts in early martial-arts films are also [[Unbuilt Trope]] examples.
* Buster Keaton could be considered a comedic successor to Douglas Fairbanks, Sr., the first Hollywood actor to portray Robin Hood and [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yaBud6ii5Wk Zorro]. (Keaton even played a role originated by Fairbanks when the latter's 1915 film, ''The Lamb,'' was remade as Keaton's first feature, ''The Saphead,'' in 1920.)
* There are a number of movies where [[Will Smith]] plays the main character, that have him showing off his Parkour skills -- as an introduction to his character to show off just how much of a badass he should be thought to be. See: ''[[I, Robot (Filmfilm)|I Robot]]'' and ''[[Men in Black (Filmfilm)|Men in Black]]'', in particular. I'm sure there are more.
* ''[[Live Free or Die Hard]]'' has Gabriel's [[Blond Guys Are Evil|henchblond]], played by Cyril Raffaelli, employ Parkour and [[Dance Battler|bouncy dexterity]] throughout the movie. Rafaelli was also in ''Banlieue 13'', in which he co-starred opposite a co-founder of the discipline.
* All the mall thieves of ''[[Paul Blart: Mall Cop]]'' can do some Parkour tricks along with using bikes and skateboards to get around.
* Bruce Banner shows off a little Parkour while running from General Ross in the ''[[Incredible Hulk]]'' movie. A Parkour expert choreographed the Hulk's movements.
* A trio of "traceurs" serve as couriers for mobster Billy Russoti in ''[[The Punisher|Punisher: War Zone]]''. One of them learns the hard way that the discipline doesn't cover how to dodge rockets in mid-air. According to the [[DVD Commentary]], this was meant as a [[Take That]] aimed at just about every movie on this list.
* A staple of [[Jackie Chan]] movies, though outtakes show that being able to leap up a wall in three bounds does take just the right amount of momentum and angle, and failures range from hilarious to painful (or both).
* ''[[Ong Bak]]'', so very very much.
* ''[[Babylon ADA.D.]].'' Darquandier's men show these skills when tracking the protagonists through a Russian train station and refugee camp.
* Shows up in, of all things, ''The [[Twilight (Literaturenovel)|Twilight]] Saga: New Moon'', [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mEFNlGrZWW4 when Jacob climbs through Bella's window.]
* In the movie adaptation of ''[[The Crow]]'', Eric Draven uses Parkour-like movements to cross the city rooftops.
* ''[[Watchmen (Filmfilm)|Watchmen]]''. Rorschach shows some skills in this area when infiltrating the Rockefeller Military Research Centre.
* The 2010 movie ''[[Prince of Persia: theThe Sands of Time (Film)|Prince of Persia the Sands of Time]]'' has Dastan doing Parkour, of course.
* Featured in ''[[The Tournament (Film)|The Tournament]]'' focusing on a group of assassins, competing in an underground fighting tournament put together by [[The Omniscient Council of Vagueness]]. One of the characters, "The Frenchman" used Parkour to good effect.
* Seen in ''[[Exit Through the Gift Shop]]'', when an apparent graffiti artist in France escapes from two policemen by quickly scampering to the roof of a building.
* In ''[[Transformers Dark of the Moon (Film)|Transformers: Dark of the Moon]]'', Sam Witwicky does some Parkour moves as he's running through a debris-and-wreck-laden street near the climax of the movie.
* During ''[[Tron Legacy (Film)|Tron: Legacy]]'', Sam briefly does a few vaults over police cars near the start of the film. Attention isn't called to it, and it could easily be missed by someone who doesn't know what to look for. Parkour featured much more heavily in ''[[Tron Evolution]]'', and may appear in ''Tron Uprising''.
* In ''[[Colombiana]]'', Cataleya (even as a little girl!) and a random mook use this.
* In ''[[Resident Evil (Filmfilm)|Resident Evil]]'' and its sequels, Alice uses this at times.
** In ''[[Resident Evil Afterlife (Film)|Resident Evil Afterlife]]'', Claire runs up a wall (in a wet bathroom!) to evade the Executioner.
* Spoofed in ''[[Johnny English Reborn]]'' when English is chasing an assassin with these skills; English runs him down by doing mundane things like squeezing between air-conditioner units instead of running over them, using a crane instead of jumping between buildings, and taking the elevator instead of climbing down the scaffolding.
 
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* Has also appeared in the opening of an episode of ''[[Rush]]'' and several recent episodes of ''[[The Bill]]''. Needless to say, they were being chased by the police at the time. Not only that, the villain of the first episode is actually an instructor of Parkour in Melbourne. Part of the Australian Parkour Association.
* An episode of ABC's ''[[The Forgotten]]'' focuses on this.
* An episode of ''[[House (TV series)|House]]'' opens with police chasing an unnamed fellow who navigates the alleyways using this technique. One of the cops pursuing him discovers Parkour isn't as easy as the suspect on the run makes it look.
* In an episode of ''[[Covert Affairs]]'', Ben Mercer and Jai engage in a short chase through a shipyard that has them both employing some parkour type moves including Ben doing recognizable vaults.
* ''[[Ninja Warrior]]'': [[Promoted Fanboy]] Levi Meeuwenberg is a professional free-runner, whose skills have made him one of the most successful non-Japanese participants in the history of the program.
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== Pro Wrestling ==
* [[John Morrison]] and Kofi Kingston do this at times. Like when Kofi ran up a closed ladder at Wrestlemania 25.
** Morrison did a Parkour training segment prior to a Falls Count Anywhere match with Sheamus. The match itself also made great use of Morrison's Parkour abilities, as he constantly stymied Sheamus by using the environment to his advantage. Sadly, Morrison did not yell "[[The Spoony Experiment (Web Video)|PARKOUR]]!!" each time he one-upped Sheamus in this manner.
** Taken to CMOA levels during the 2011 ''Royal Rumble'', where Morrison was knocked out of the ring, managed to cling to the security barrier, climb up it, leap to the ring steps, and get back to the ring without touching the floor.
** Then there's Morrison ''climbing'' up the inside of the Elimination Chamber just so he land ''on top of Sheamus''. Then later he climbs up on the sides of the chamber just to kick Punk in the face.
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== Music ==
* The music video for [[Madonna]]'s "Jump" features two men performing this, but the Parkour is arguably overshadowed by Madonna's sort-of-creepy cosplaying of Mello from ''[[Death Note (Manga)|Death Note]]''.
* Three Doors Down's "It's Not My Time" video features this, and quite prominently at that.
* [[Kesha]]'s "Take It Off" video.
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== Tabletop Games ==
* ''[[New World of Darkness (Tabletop Game)|New World of Darkness]]'' has Parkour as a five-dot general "Athletic Style" Merit, not unlike the Fighting Style Merits, with each dot centering around a new technique or degree of mastery. ''[[Werewolf: The Forsaken]]'' likewise has the [[Prestige Class|Lodge]] of Spires -- a.k.a., [[Fan Nickname|The Lodge of Batman]] -- that gains a discount to buying up dots in Parkour due to a mindset that treats the city as just another hunting ground to be mastered.
* ''[[Mutants and Masterminds (Tabletop Game)|Mutants and Masterminds]]'' has a power called "Sure Footed" which reduces speed penalties from obstacles and other uneven terrain. Take enough ranks in it, and any gauntlet of traps, tripping hazards, handrails, obstacles, buildings, etc. etc., is as easily run through as a wide open field. Sound familiar?
 
 
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** While it's called free-running (thus not making the distinction on this page's main article), in general the player characters practice ''Parkour'' whenever they need to get around quickly, and the game's racing/courier missions tend to enforce efficiency as the focus. Strangely enough though, somehow every Thief, Agile guard, Robber and Borgia Courier seems to practice ''Parkour'', and Francesco de' Pazzi demonstrates amazing proficiency for a presumably non-athletic man, much less a non-Assassin. (It's implied that for the player characters, their physical aptitude is a "family thing.")
** The official strategy guide's portions on free-running and climbing are clear on the importance of efficiency, suggesting that one [[The Tetris Effect|adopt the ''traceur'' mindset]] to the game world, "appraise your immediate environment quickly, identifying all potential points of interactivity," and that "the real challenge lies in picking the most efficient route to your destination."
* The whole point of ''[[MirrorsMirror's Edge]]'' is Parkour. The plot and other game elements are built entirely around it. It's also done completely in first-person. It even has the crane scene from ''[[Casino Royale (Film)|Casino Royale]]''.
* Quite a lot of ''[[Sonic the Hedgehog]]'' characters can do this, especially [[Super Speed|Sonic]] himself. [[Wall Jump|Wall Jumping]], [[Roof Hopping]] and [[In a Single Bound]] are also invoked, [[Cutscene Power to Thethe Max|but are much less capable in gameplay.]] Sonic certainly is a traceur in spirit. He wall jumps, wall-runs, runs and leaps at amazing speeds... all the while choosing the one path (among several choices per level) that may potentially get him to the finish line as quickly as possible. In some recent titles, Sonic will move forward on his own and will only stop if the player makes him, so you only have to keep him away from obstacles.
* The ''[[Spider-Man (Comic Book)|Spider-Man]] 2'' video game gives Spidey and the player plenty of moves to run around the city with. Aside from the obvious web-swinging and [[Wall Crawl|Wall Crawling]], Spider-Man can run up walls, swing on poles and, with a combination of sprinting and his chargeable jump, easily leap from roof to roof without even needing to use his webs. The game actively encourages you to be creative with how you move around the city.
* Speaking of [[Marvel Universe]] games, the ''[[Incredible Hulk (Comic Book)|Incredible Hulk]]'' can also pull the same wall-running/climbing, sprinting and jump-charging tricks in ''[[The Incredible Hulk: Ultimate Destruction]]'' to largely the same effects. He performs air dashes instead of web-swinging, though. And his variation of Le Parkour is more or less going through everything in his way.
* You can gain ''Free Running'' as a skill in the browser-based [[Zombie Apocalypse|zombie]] [[Survival Horror|survival]] game ''[[Urban Dead]]''. It lets you enter normally inaccessible buildings, and move from building to building without having to go outside.
* Not necessarily used by ''[[Splinter Cell]]'''s Sam Fisher, who prefers silent approaches, but slowly added to the repertoire of the Shadownet spies throughout the series.
* ''[[Prototype (Videovideo Gamegame)|Prototype]]'' is [[Spiritual Successor]] to the ''Hulk'' game and often involves running up whatever surface will accommodate you. While Alex can climb up on vertical surfaces [[Spider -Man]]-style, simply sprinting vertically upwards on the same surface is generally faster, even if he's carrying someone in one hand. He can even run sideways on vertical surfaces in complete defiance of gravity. Then there are the numerous smaller tidbits like backflipping off walls, vaulting over cars, ''dodging sideways in mid-air''... And while the soldiers react to him playing Spiderman almost instantly, they don't even bat an eyelid while he's doing Parkour tricks, even if he's disguised. In fact, their reaction can be summed up as pointing in Alex' general direction and exclaiming "[[What the Hell, Player?|You seeing this shit?!]]"
* ''[[In FamousInfamous (Videovideo game Gameseries)|In Famous]]'' is largely realistic in its use of parkour, aside from Cole never taking falling damage and eventually throwing gliding, grinding and turbo-jumping into his repertoire. There are side-missions based around getting to a series of points in order as quickly as possible, and if you want to complete them you ''will'' have to hone your ''traceur''-sense (and your reflexes).
* The Xbox ''[[Ninja Gaiden]]'' series. It gets rather over-the-top when Ryu can chain wall-runs by jumping from wall to wall so that he can ascend a tall shaft, but hey, the titles are adherents of [[Rule of Cool]]. Also, [[Ninja]].
* ''[[N]]'' is nothing but this, since you play as a [[Ninja]] whose only power is wall-jumping.
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** All of the Common Infected seem to have somehow gained the ability to climb walls and fences that would be difficult for even
* This is the main mode of travel for ''[[Sly Cooper]]''.
* Some of the swinging/roof-jumping sequences in the 3D ''[[Bionic Commando (Video Game)|Bionic Commando]]'' sequel have this feel.
* ''[[Brink]]'' is a first person shooter with what's called SMART; "Smooth Movement Across Random Terrain". It has a dedicated "Parkour" button, as well as more precise manual controls. Look up at a ledge, hit the SMART button, and you jump and climb onto it automatically. Look down and press the same button, and you slide. Approach a railing and hit the button, and you climb over it.
* ''The Hidden'', a mod for ''[[Half-Life 2 (Video Game)|Half-Life 2]]'', has the IRIS paramilitary team hunting an invisible, super-strong genetically modified human, Subject 617. 617 has the ability to pounce long distances as well as cling to surfaces, allowing him to easily bypass almost any obstacle and climb surfaces as long as his strength holds out.
* A meta example is the art of [[Speed Run|Speed Running]] in general. The basis of Parkour philosophy, getting from one place to another as fast as possible, is precisely what Speed Runners do, and it's more prevalent in open-ended games like ''[[Castlevania]]'' and ''[[Metroid]]'', or in old-school Platformers.
* Speaking of ''[[Metroid]]'', Samus herself can be can be considered a free-runner based upon he constant flipping. She also wall jumps, and does one-handed cat-leaps to get to where she needs to be. The physics of ''Super Metroid'' make it possible to do some actual Parkour stuff with what you have, especially with Mock-Balling which lets you get places really fast, especially really small places.
* ''[[Beyond Good and& Evil (Videovideo Gamegame)|Beyond Good and Evil]]'': Jade uses this frequently, but its most apparent in two instances when escaping from Alpha bases.
* ''[[Champions Online]]'' has makeshift Parkour "tracks" on rooftops in Millennium City.
* This is Monkey's primary mode of transportation in ''[[Enslaved: OdysseytotheOdyssey to the West]]''.
* Hermes from ''[[God of War (Video Gameseries)|God of War]] III''. Kratos gains this skill after he kills him and steals his [[Sprint Shoes|Boots of Hermes]].
* ''[[Dust ForceDustforce]]'' is built off this, and has a clever mechanic whereby the dust you are sweeping hints at routes and what acrobatics are required to progress.
* The Snorks from ''[[STALKER]]'' for a more mutant example.
* ''[[Minecraft]]'' has entire adventure maps centered around this, up to and including at least one ''[[Assassin's Creed]]'' themed map. You can also try it during a normal game, though it's [[Lava Pit|not]] [[Not the Fall That Kills You|recommended]].
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* Jane attempts to get her start as a Parkour master in [http://nobodyscores.loosenutstudio.com/index.php?id=350 this strip] of ''[[Nobody Scores]]''.
* Wren of ''[[White Noise]]'' uses a Parkour Tic-Tac to leap from one wall to the top of another, amongst other Parkour movements.
* Robot S13 of ''[[Gunnerkrigg Court (Webcomic)|Gunnerkrigg Court]]'' does this in his temporary body in Ch 25. The author's comments [[Lampshade]] S13's outfit's resemblance to the Hunter from ''[[Left 4 Dead]]'' (see Videogames, above), though this was [http://twitter.com/gunnerkrigg/status/5362290445 unintentional].
* ''[[Schlock Mercenary (Webcomic)|Schlock Mercenary]]'' features a martial art called "Parkata Urbatsu", which is described as a descendant of Parkour, free-running, and "Youtubing". It appears in "Mallcop Command". However, since it's on a space station, you have to take into account the fact that the station is rotating whenever you jump. Inevitably, to catch their targets {{spoiler|(who turn out to be pro Parkata Urbatsu enthusiasts illegally filming their stunts)}}, the mercenaries have to master it via a crash course by Commander Shodan. With emphasis on the ''crash'' part.<br />Schlock got really good at it, and now he sometimes uses it just for general moving around. Shodan actually asked one of the Mallcop Command perps to help him "un-teach Schlock Parkata Urbatsu" (she declares Schlock an artist and refuses).
* [http://www.sinfest.net/archive_page.php?comicID=3510 This strip] of ''[[Sinfest]]''.
* ''[[Last Res 0 rtRes0rt]]'': "[http://www.lastres0rt.com/2010/06/if-real-zombies-ever-learn-parkour-were-doomed/ If real zombies ever learn Parkour, we're doomed.]"
** Technically that's a vampire, not a zombie.
* In ''[[Rusty and Co (Webcomic).|Rusty and Co]]'', Gelatinous Cube knows Parkour. [http://rustyandco.com/comic/level-5-3/ No, really.]
* In ''[[Snow By Night]]'', Blaise [http://www.snowbynight.com/pages/ch1/pg19.html does this] to evade three disgruntled rooks. His pursuers are rather taken aback.
* In [[The Zombie Hunters]], at least one "hunter" zombie is depicted in this way. The author described them as "urban ninjas" but without human inhibitions, like pain, tiredness, or fear of death.
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== Western Animation ==
* ''[[Kim Possible]]'', used occasionally by friends and foes alike.
* ''[[Avatar: The Last Airbender (Animation)|Avatar: The Last Airbender]]''
** Aang commonly rides on a spherical column of air to accomplish it, though he is capable of executing it with his own swiftness and agility.
** Azula is quite agile on her own and {{spoiler|with the help of some of her minions from the Dai Li, she was able to elevate it to the level of [[She Fu]].}} A little while later, {{spoiler|she invents a way to use firebending to ''launch herself around like rocket''.}}
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** Zuko's used it a couple of times, notably in "The Firebending Masters" when he ran along a wall to avoid a spike pit.
** Also, in one episode during the Ba Sing Se arc, the [[Fan Nickname|Gaang]] make a straight run toward the Earth King's Palace, using [[Elemental Powers|bending]] to clear some obstacles, namely the [[Mooks|palace guards]].
* [[Sequel Series]] ''[[The Legend of Korra (Animation)|The Legend of Korra]]'' takes place in a "[[Steampunk]] metropolis" and uses a lot of parkour-style fighting and chase scenes. This helps represent the way the Avatar world's societies have begun moving away from more traditional, form-based bending styles as society industrializes. And as with the martial arts in both ''Korra'' and {{its predecessor [[Avatar| The Last Airbender (Animation)|Avatar: The Last Airbender]]}}, they've [[Shown Their Work|hired a parkour expert to assist them]].
** However, the more traditional martial-arts based forms of bending are still practiced, especially by [[The Mentor|Tenzin]], the last real practicioner of Air Nomad culture on the planet until his three (soon to be four) children grow up. This helps set up the "tradition versus progress" conflict that forms part of the story's core.
* ''[[The Spectacular Spider -Man]]'' has ''finally'' added this to Spider-Man's repertoire, making his [[Roof Hopping]] and [[Wall Crawl|Wall Crawling]] action sequences a lot more interesting.
** Meaning Parker can now [[Incredibly Lame Pun|Parkour]]?
* Heavily parodied in the Bounty Hunter episode of ''[[The Simpsons]]''. Flanders chases Homer across Springfield, leaping over obstacles. Homer gets into an elevator and bounces off the walls as he waits to arrive at the top. Then the two steal horses, which proceed to practice Parkour themselves, jumping off cars and springing off walls.
* In ''[[Barbie]]: A Fashion Fairytale'', this is one of the hobbies that Barbie's aunt Millicent considers taking up after her fashion house closes {{spoiler|which of course, doesn't happen}}.
* The various ''[[Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles]]'' animated series has just about everybody pulling this every time they go up on a rooftop.
* ''[[Wakfu (Animation)|Wakfu]]'''s season 2 features some good examples with Evangelyne and Remington chasing each other over Rubilaxia, a magical [[Traveling Landmass]] covered in damaged buildings that keep soaring or crumbling without warning.
* Used in a chase scene from ''[[The Amazing World of Gumball]]''.
* Done in an episode of ''[[American Dad (Animation)|American Dad]]!'' where Stan and Francine start hanging out with a younger, more active couple and pretend to be young themselves to maintain the friendship. There's a pretty neat scene where they go free-running; Francine does quite well for a first timer, while Stan (despite his CIA training) messes up, gets his head caught in a banister, and ends up landing so hard on his leg that it makes his shin bone protrude through his skin. [[Squick|Ouch]].
** [[Played for Laughs]] later in the episode when Stan and Francine's attempt to make their friends slow down [[Gone Horribly Wrong|goes horribly wrong]]. After a fight, the wife throws her ring into the husband's face and free-runs away, screaming angrily.
 
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