Freestyle, improvisation in breaking, MCing, or other art forms.¹ Breaking that reacts to the music is implicitly freestyle. Freestyle may be considered contrary to choreography and sets, though it should be noted that freestyle, and improvisation generally, describes a continuum of approaches involving both spontaneous and precomposed elements—evident, for example, given moves or combos.

The term has been used in the names of influential events and media, including:

• Freestyle 85, hip-hop event held in London in 1985, organized by Buddha .
• Freestyle, German TV show dedicated to hip hop that run from 1993 to 1995, filmed in Köln and broadcast on VIVA, whose hosts included Storm, MC Torch, and DJ Stylewarz.
• Freestyle Session, breaking event series, first held in San Diego, California in November 1997, organized by CROS ONE.
• "Free In The Style," break mix produced by DJs Lean Rock and B-Ryan, released in 2013.

Freestyle, dance, variously proto-breaking or non-breaking styles in 1970s New York , hip hop and house-inflected styles of the 80s and 90s , or breaking itself.

Freestyle, music, a label sometimes given to 1980s pop songs such as Shannon's "Give Me Tonight" and Debbie Deb's "Lookout Weekend."

1. Freestyle in the sense of improvised temporal art appeared by 1873, according to the Oxford English Dictionary, which documented advertisement of an organist's "extemporaneous and free-style playing" . Use of the term freestyle in swimming is dated to 1906.