Definitions for leapfrog

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leapfrog leap·frog

Spelling: [leep-frog, -frawg]

IPA: /ˈlipˌfrɒg, -ˌfrɔg/

Leapfrog is a 8 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 14 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 17 points.

You can make 338 anagrams from letters in leapfrog (aefglopr).

Definitions for leapfrog

noun

1. a game in which players take turns in leaping over another player bent over from the waist.
2. an advance from one place, position, or situation to another without progressing through all or any of the places or stages in between:

verb (used with object)

1. to jump over (a person or thing) in or as if in leapfrog:
2. to move or cause to move as if in leapfrog:

verb (used without object)

1. to move or advance in or as if in leapfrog:

Origin of leapfrog

First recorded in 1590-1600; leap + frog¹

Examples for leapfrog

Unlike technology, there is no leapfrog development in politics.

The leapfrog stood for a long time, as if lost in thought; people began to think he would not jump at all.

Mr. Miller had risen and bowed as if he was giving some invisible person a “back” for leapfrog.

One was leapfrog, and another was of the snap-the-whip variety.

It is not necessary to be able to play at leapfrog to enjoy the game.

Elsewhere the natives were wondrously pleased to see some of our party playing at leapfrog during the stops.

leapfrog is one of his methods of getting over the ground quickly.

He even played a game of leapfrog with the Son of the Magician, then they sang a comic duet, of which I cannot remember the words.

Each group stands in single file in leapfrog position, feet wide apart to form a tunnel through which the ball is passed.

Others were playing at leapfrog, or chasing each other from pillar to post.