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
Examples of 'leapfrogging' in a sentence
leapfrogging
Leicester were just one goal from leapfrogging them.
The Sun (2008)
A separate volume, leapfrogging the years?
Times, Sunday Times (2013)
Huddersfield's teamwork was matchless, their conviction unshakeable as they reduced their hosts to rubble while leapfrogging them into eighth spot.
Times, Sunday Times (2017)
One problem was the logistics of moving two giant tents between locations — leapfrogging to keep pace with the schedule.
Times, Sunday Times (2017)
Another had made money as a financial analyst and was leapfrogging from one investment bank to another.
Times, Sunday Times (2008)
Hundreds of leapfrogging woolly bundles later, you will be using your pillow as a punchbag.
The Sun (2017)
But it doesn't quite explain the absence of the book's structural ingenuity, especially its consistent narrative leapfrogging through time.
Times, Sunday Times (2006)
Institutional investors are demanding sector-by-sector comparative information on pay in an attempt to slow the leapfrogging nature of remuneration growth.