leapfrog

English

Noun

Wikipedia leapfrog (plural leapfrogs)

1. (games) A children's game in which players vault over each other's stooped backs.

Derived terms

• leapfrogger

Translations

children's game

• Catalan: viola (ca) f
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 蛙跳 (cmn) (wātiào)

• Dutch: haasje-over (nl)
• Esperanto: ŝaf-saltado (eo)
• Finnish: pukkihyppely (fi)
• French: saute-mouton (fr) m
• German: Bockspringen (de) n

• Icelandic: höfrungahlaup (is)
• Japanese: 馬跳び (ja) (うまとび, umatobi)
• Norwegian: hoppe bukk (no)
• Portuguese: carniça (pt) f, eixo-badeixo (pt) m
• Russian: чехарда (ru) (chexardá) f
• Turkish: atlambaç (tr), birdirbir (tr), uzuneşek (tr)

Verb

leapfrog (third-person singular simple present leapfrogs, present participle leapfrogging, simple past and past participle leapfrogged)

1. (transitive) To jump over some obstacle as in leapfrog.
2. (transitive) To overtake

   This new product will leapfrog the competition.

   • 2011 January 12, Saj Chowdhury, “Liverpool 2 - 1 Liverpool”, BBC:

     Blackpool thus achieved their first double over Liverpool since the 1946-47 season but more significantly they leapfrogged their opponents in the table with a game in hand.

3. (transitive, military) To advance by engaging enemy with one unit while the other moves further forward.
4. (intransitive) To progress as in leapfrog.

Translations

to jump over an obstacle

• Esperanto: ŝaf-saltadi (eo)
• Finnish: loikata (fi)

• French: faire du saute-mouton

to make obsolete

• Finnish: jättää varjoonsa

(military) to advance with one unit by engaging the enemy with another unit

• Finnish: koukata

to progress as in leapfrog

• Finnish: loikata (fi)