The word is practitioner , and is one word used in place of player when the activity is not an obvious game (usually with opponents) like soccer, tennis or chess. Parkour is called freerunning in English, and is a sort of 'Zen' sport like aikido, I suppose-- where a practitioner is one who practices hard at a relatively complex and basically self-challenging activity.
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