leapfrog

🇺🇸 /ˈliːpfrɔːɡ/ 🇬🇧 /ˈliːpfrɒɡ/
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noun
R

A game where children take turns jumping over each other's backs while they are bent down.

During recess, the kids played leapfrog in the schoolyard.

verb
R

To move ahead of someone or something by skipping a few steps or stages.

After acing the exam, he was able to leapfrog his classmates and move up a grade.

translation

n. A game where children take turns jumping over each other's backs while they are bent down.
v. To move ahead of someone or something by skipping a few steps or stages.

Word Forms

3rd Present leapfrogs
Progressive leapfrogging
Past leapfrogged
Plural leapfrogs
Perfect leapfrogged