Leapfrog

3 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Leapfrog \Leap"frog`\, n.
     A play among boys, in which one stoops down and another leaps
     over him by placing his hands on the shoulders of the former.
     [1913 Webster]

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:



  leapfrog
       n 1: advancing as if in the game of leapfrog
       2: a game in which one child bends down and another leaps over
       v 1: jump across; "He leapfrogged his classmates"
       2: progress by large jumps instead of small increments
       [also: {leapfrogging}, {leapfrogged}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  32 Moby Thesaurus words for "leapfrog":
     bounce, bound, buck, buckjump, capriole, clear, curvet,
     hippety-hop, hop, hurdle, jump, jump over, leap, leap over,
     negotiate, overjump, overleap, overskip, pounce, pounce on,
     pounce upon, ski jump, skip, spring, start, start aside, start up,
     steeplechase, updive, upleap, upspring, vault