- a game in which players take turns in leaping over another player bent over from the waist.
- an advance from one place, position, or situation to another without progressing through all or any of the places or stages in between: a leapfrog from bank teller to vice president in one short year.
- to jump over (a person or thing) in or as if in leapfrog: He leapfrogged the fence to reach the crying child.
- to move or cause to move as if in leapfrog: Manufacturers are leapfrogging prices because the cost of raw materials has doubled.
- to move or advance in or as if in leapfrog: Our tour leapfrogged through six cities in four days.
- 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
- to play leapfrog
- to leap in this way over (something)
- to advance or cause to advance by jumps or stages
