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The article reports on the move by French activists to use their Parkour skills to switch off wasteful lighting in France's public spaces to save energy and reduce light pollution.

The article inform international gymnastics federation wants to have parkour events in Paris in 2024.

The article discusses the opening of several indoor gyms designed to accommodate parkour, an acrobatic sport usually played outdoors, as of August 8, 2013. Topics addressed include criticisms of indoor parkour from certain enthusiasts of the sport, parkour gyms in New York City, and the growing popularity and support of parkour.

The article examines parkour, a French discipline of urban gymnastics in which persons are trained to take the quickest route between two points whatever the obstacles, even if they are solid walls. Parkour has become popular with young people in the U.S., with many practitioners in southern California. Indoor gymnasiums are being constructed for those wishing to learn parkour without suffering its inevitable minor wounds and injuries.

The article discusses the popularity of parkour, a sport that traces from training for French commandos which involves running, jumping over objects and flips off surfaces, in New York City, highlighting photographer Ben Franke's interest in taking photographs of parkour athletes.

VIDEO The Palestinian exercise ritual of Parkour, an acrobatic discipline that gives young men a form of relief from the stresses of living in Gaza. nytimes.com/world [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]