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Leapfrog   /lˈipfrˌɔg/   Listen
Leapfrog

noun
1.
Advancing as if in the child's game, by leaping over obstacles or competitors.
2.
A game in which one child bends down and another leaps over.
verb
1.
Jump across.
2.
Progress by large jumps instead of small increments.






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"Leapfrog" Quotes from Famous Books



... the fourth day of Fritz's contemptuous use of the road mentioned, the Captain and I were at our posts as usual. Fritz was strafing us pretty rough, just like he's doing now. The shells were playing leapfrog ...
— Over The Top • Arthur Guy Empey

... foreleg, plucks from a tree a large mango fruit, offers it to his mistress, blinking, in his cloven hoof, then droops his head and, grunting, with uplifted neck, fumbles to kneel. Bloom stoops his back for leapfrog.) ...
— Ulysses • James Joyce

... Rome at the end of the "sixties" and played, like other English-speaking children, on the Pincian Hill. While they were playing at leapfrog word was suddenly passed round ...
— The Adventure of Living • John St. Loe Strachey

... pallone[obs3], polo, water polo; tent pegging; tilting at the ring, quintain[obs3][medeival];, greasy pole; quoits, horseshoes, discus; rounders, lacrosse; tobogganing, water polo; knurr and spell[obs3]. [childrens' games] leapfrog, hop skip and jump; mother may I; French and English, tug of war; blindman's bluff, hunt the slopper[obs3], hide and seek, kiss in the ring; snapdragon; cross questions and crooked answers.; crisscross, hopscotch; jacks, jackstones[obs3], marbles; ...
— Roget's Thesaurus

... crossing his legs, "you come late in the day! Amusements cease to amuse at last. I have tried all, and begin to be tired. I have had my holiday, exhausted its sports; and you, coming from books and desk fresh into the playground, say, 'Football and leapfrog.' Alas! my poor friend, why did ...
— What Will He Do With It, Complete • Edward Bulwer-Lytton


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