jumping frog
Hopping pond dweller
A jumping frog is simply a frog that jumps—which most frogs do.
The phrase gained cultural weight from Mark Twain's 1865 story "The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County," about a betting man whose trained frog loses a contest after a rival secretly fills it with buckshot.
Frog-jumping contests remain a novelty at county fairs.
- leapingSpringing into air
- toadWarty terrestrial amphibian
- pondSmall still body
- hopSmall, quick jump
- lily padFloating aquatic leaf
lily pond · splash · water splash · croak · green · green skin · legs · tadpole · webbed · amphibian · bounce · spring · hop along · creek · swamp · ribbit · slimy · wet
- Origamicrane, swan, paper airplane, fortune teller, ninja star
- bouncy toysbouncy ball, pogo stick, trampoline, space hopper, bouncy castle
- pop-up toysjack-in-the-box, pop-up book, spring snake