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leapfrog
(liːpfrɒg, US -frɔːg)
Word forms: 3rd person singular presenttense leapfrogs, present participle leapfrogging, past tense, past participle leapfrogged
1. uncountable noun
Leapfrog is a game which children play, in which a child bends over, while others jump over their back.
...children engaged in activities such as riding, playing leapfrog, or football.
2. verb
If one group of people leapfrogs into a particular position or leapfrogs someone else, they use the achievements of another person or group in order to make advances of their own.
It is already obvious that all four American systems have leapfrogged over the Europeanversions. [VERB preposition]
American researchers have now leapfrogged the Japanese and are going to produce adigital system within a year or two. [VERB noun]
leapfrog in British English
(ˈliːpˌfrɒɡ)
noun
1.
a children's game in which each player in turn leaps over the others' bent backs, leaning on them with the hands and spreading the legs wide
verbWord forms: -frogs, -frogging or -frogged
2.
a. (intransitive)
to play leapfrog
b. (transitive)
to leap in this way over (something)
3.
to advance or cause to advance by jumps or stages
leapfrog in American English
(ˈlipˌfrɔg)
noun
1.
a game in which each player in turn jumps, with legs spread wide, over the bent backof each of the other players
verb intransitiveWord forms: ˈleapˌfrogged or ˈleapˌfrogging
2.
to jump in or as if in leapfrog; skip (over)
3.
to move or progress in jumps or stages
verb transitive
4.
to jump or skip over, as in leapfrog
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Other GamesIn other languagesleapfrog
British English: leapfrog NOUN
Leapfrog is a game which children play, in which a child bends over, while others jump over their back.
...children engaged in activities such as riding, playing leapfrog, or football.
- American English: leapfrog
- Brazilian Portuguese: jogo de pular carniça
- Chinese: 跳背游戏
- European Spanish: pídola
- French: saute-mouton
- German: Bockspringen
- Italian: cavallinagioco
- Japanese: 馬跳び
- Korean: 등 짚고 뛰어넘기
- European Portuguese: saltar ao eixo
- Latin American Spanish: saltar al burro
British English: leapfrog VERB
If one group of people leapfrogs into a particular position or leapfrogs someone else, they use the achievements of another person or group in order to make advances of their own.
It is already obvious that all four American systems have leapfrogged over the European versions.
- American English: leapfrog
- Brazilian Portuguese: tomar vantagem de condições alheias para ultrapassar os concorrentes
- Chinese: 更上一层楼
- European Spanish: aventajar
- French: dépasser
- German: überspringen
- Italian: scavalcare
- Japanese: 飛び越える
- Korean: 뛰어넘다
- European Portuguese: tomar vantagem de condições alheias para ultrapassar os concorrentes
- Latin American Spanish: aventajar