leap frog

Jump over friends

Leapfrog is a children's game where players crouch down while others vault over them by placing hands on their backs and springing past.

The verb means to advance by jumping over obstacles or intermediate steps: The startup leapfrogged its competitors by skipping older technology entirely.

Also spelled as two words.

Related

skip · kids game · game · hops · bounce · hurdle · surpass · outpace · passing lane · back · crouch · bent over · spring · children · party game · sack race · vault · innovate

Categories
Opposites
children's games - movement pattern

leap frogstatue

Three-dimensional sculpted likeness

statues · freeze tag · hide and seek · duck duck goose · musical chairs

strategic advancement - bypassing vs. incremental

leap froginch forward

Advance in small increments

crawl · fall behind · climb the ladder · linear progression · lag

Family

leapfrogged, leapfrogging

Familiarity
Top 200,000
Profile
Known to kids · Used worldwide · Timeless · Concrete · Positive · Everyday, not technical · Rated G