Parkour (or free-running) is a discipline that involves smoothly navigating obstacles like walls, stairs and trees with jumps, climbs and acrobatics.
He's five years old and walks, runs, jumps, climbs trees, plays with nerf guns, eats properly with a knife and fork, negotiates, problem solves, argues, sleeps like a log, likes spicy food, makes suggestions for days out, rides a bike with stabilizers, reads and writes a bit, loves helping, has tantrums and refuses to co-operate at times… it's all rather boringly normal in many ways.
It's what our bodies are evolved to do, after all – to run, jump, climb and explore our environment.
The ebooks have pictures of Beyoncé, Adele, Oprah Winfrey and Kate Moss plus dozens of girls shopping, jumping, climbing, sailing, sunbathing and modelling.
To prepare for the role, Lawrence went through six weeks of physical training in which she learned to run, jump, climb and shoot a bow and arrow.
He recommended I try the new pursuit of "coasteering" which involves swimming, jumping, climbing and generally using any physical means you can to traverse the shoreline.
I have to jump, climb, swim, bounce on lawn chairs and old mattresses, break boxes and slot machines and locate secret areas.
It is perhaps 2008's archetypal platforming game, built around jumping, climbing, leaping, running along walls and even attaining the illusion of flight in moments of balletic grace.
And currently playing on little cat feet is the Moscow Cats Theater, which features feline acrobats balancing, dancing, jumping, climbing and navigating a five-foot-long tightrope.
Most recently, a shiny six-foot-high stainless steel dome called the Mountain was made off limits to children clamoring to jump, climb and slide on it in the new $2.4 million Union Square Park playground in Manhattan.
The comedian Eddie Izzard, who describes himself as an action transvestite — "running, jumping, climbing trees, putting on makeup while you're up there" — once described his crushed childhood ambition to join the army.
