Leapfrog

Definitions: Leapfrog

Leapfrog

Noun

1. Advancing as if in the game of leapfrog.

2. One child bends down and another leaps over.

Verb

1. Jump across.

2. Progress by large jumps instead of small increments.

Date "leapfrog" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1258. (references)

Domain	Definitions
Military & Defense	Form of movement in which like supporting elements are moved successively through or by one another along the axis of movement of supported forces. Source: European Union. (references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Leapfrog is a children's game in which players vault over each other's stooped backs. The first child rests hands on knees and bends over, this is called giving a back.

The next child places hands on the first child's back and leaps over by straddling legs wide apart on each side. On landing this child stoops down and a third child leaps over the first and second, and the fourth over all three successively.

When all the children are stooping, the last in the line begins leaping over all the others in turn.

Leapfrog Enterprises Inc

An educational toy company based in Emeryville, California. Leapfrog is best known for its Leappad, a paper based electronic reading toy.

External link: Corporate webpage

Context	Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).
Amusement	Leapfrog, hop skip and jump; mother may I; French and English, tug of war; blindman's bluff, hunt the slopper, hide and seek, kiss in the ring; snapdragon; cross questions and crooked answers.; crisscross, hopscotch; jacks, jackstones, marbles; mumblety-peg, mumble-the-peg, pushball, shinney, shinny, tag;
Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

Crosswords: Leapfrog

Specialty definitions using "leapfrog": alinement clamp ♦ crippled leapfrog test ♦ leapfrog attack, leapfrog system, leapfrog test. (references)

Domain	Usage
Screenplays	A wise man never plays leapfrog with a Unicorn.. (Banacek; writing credit: Michel André; Joseph Carole)
Movie/TV Titles	Leapfrog - Atlantic City Boys Bathing (1896)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Domain	Title
References	Leapfrog Smart Products, Inc.: International Competitive Benchmarks and Financial Gap Analysis (reference) (more reference examples)

Books	Leapfrog Easy Readers (reference) LEAPFROG SMART PRODUCTS, INC.: International Competitive Benchmarks and Financial Gap Analysis (Financial Performance Series) (reference) Never Play Leapfrog with a Unicorn (reference) Playing Leapfrog With Porcupines (reference) (more book examples)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

"Leapfrog" is generally used as a lexical verb (infinitive) -- approximately 52.78% of the time. "Leapfrog" is used about 36 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)

Parts of Speech	Percent	Usage per 100 Million Words	Rank in English
Lexical Verb (infinitive)	52.78%	19	80,337
Noun (singular)	36.11%	13	97,576
Lexical Verb (base form)	11.11%	4	175,879
Total	100.00%	36	N/A

Expression using "leapfrog": leapfrog attack. Additional references.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.

Language		Translations for "leapfrog"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Albanian		lojë kalakiç, shmangem (circumvent, deflect, depart, deviate, diverge, dodge, duck, escape, eschew, fence, fend off, fight shy of, forbear, funk, give a wide berth, glance, jink, jump, keep one's distance, Miss, Parry, refrain, shirk, shun, sidestep, steer clear of, tergiversate, wander), i hipi kalakiç. (various references)

Arabic		‏لعبة القفزية, ‏قفز (bound, flier, gambol, glove, hop, jump, jump out, leap, leaping, leapt, lope, pop, skip, spring, start up, vault), ‏تقدم بوثبات أو بالتجاوز, ‏تجاوز (cap, encroach, encroachment, exceed, excuse, jut, obtrude, omission, outbalance, outmatch, outrun, outstrip, overreach, override, overrun, overtake, overtaking, pass, passing, project, rise, span, surpass, transcend, transcendence, transgress, trespass). (various references)

Bulgarian		заобикалям (beat, begird, beset, bridge, bypass, circumambulate, circumnavigate, circumvent, compass, double, elude, encircle, environ, evade, get round, gird, girdle, make a detour, pass round, round, short circuit, sidestep, skirt, stretch, surround, work round), прескочи-кобила, играя на прескочикобила. (various references)

Chinese		蛙跳. (various references)

Czech		skákání přes kozu. (various references)

Danish		springvis fremrykning, springe buk. (various references)

Farsi		گریززدن (Digress), گره گره حرکت کردن , جفتک چارکش کردن , ازیکدیگربنوبت جلوزدن , بازی جفتک چارکش , باجست وخیزحرکت کردن . (various references)

French		tasseur � explosion, sauter � saute-mouton, saute-mouton, progression par bonds, grenouille, franchir � saute-mouton, dépasser. (various references)

German		bockspringen (leapfrogs, vaulting). (various references)

Greek		καβάλλεσ. (various references)

Hebrew		קפיצת מפשק, קפיצת חמור. (various references)

Hungarian		bakugrás (bucking, caper, leap-frog). (various references)

Italian		costipatore a rana (power tamper), cavallina. (various references)

Japanese Kanji		飛躍 (activity, leaping), 蛙跳び , 蛙跳 , 馬跳 . (various references)

Japanese Katakana		ひやく (activity, leaping, nostrum, secret medicine), うまとび (leapfrogging), かえるとび. (various references)

Manx		lheimyraght ghrommey. (various references)

Pig Latin		eapfroglay

Portuguese		rã de compactação (power tamper). (various references)

Russian		чехарда. (various references)

Spanish		saltar por encima de (clear, jump, jump over, leap, take), saltar (dance, hop, jolt, jump, jump across, jump out, leap, plunge, pop out, spring, take, vault), saltacabrilla, rana (frog, power tamper, shoe, treeshoe), pídola, jugar a la pídola, juego del sapo, fil derecho, dar saltos (jolt, jump, jump about, jump across, jump around, leap about), brincar (bond, bounce, caper, dance, Frisk, galumph, gambol, hop, jump, jump about, jump around, leap, leap about, lift out, romp, skip, spring). (various references)

Swedish		hoppa bock över, hoppa bock (leap-frog), bockhoppning. (various references)

Turkish		birdirbirde ebenin üzerinden atlamak, birdirbir oynamak, birdirbir. (various references)

Ukranian		чехарда, перестрибувати (jump over, leap, overjump, overleap, skip). (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

Derivations
	Words beginning with "leapfrog": leapfrogged, leapfrogging, leapfrogs. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

# of Phoneme Matches	Pronunciation	Word(s) rhyming with "leapfrog" (pronounced lē"pfrô'g)
4	-f r ô' g	bullfrog.
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "a-e-f-g-l-o-p-r"
	-1 letter: pergola.
	-2 letters: florae, forage, galore, gaoler, golfer, loafer, parole, proleg.
	-3 letters: afore, algor, argle, argol, farle, feral, flare, flora, forge, galop, gaper, glare, gofer, goral, grape, grope, lager, large, largo, loper, ogler, opera, pager, paler, pareo, parge, pargo, parle, parol, pearl, plage, polar, poler, prole, regal.
	-4 letters: aero, ager, alef, aloe, aper, earl, egal, ergo, fare, farl, faro, feal, fear, flag, flap, flea, floe, flog, flop, foal, fora, fore, frae, frag, frap, froe, frog, gale, gaol, gape, gear, glop, goal, goer, golf, gore, gorp, leaf, leap, lear, loaf, loge, lope, lore, ogle, ogre, olea, opal, oral, orle, page, pale, pare, peag, peal, pear, pelf, plea, pole, pore, prao, proa, prof, prog, rage, rale, rape, real, reap, repo, role, rolf, rope.
	-5 letters: age, ago, ale, alp, ape, are, arf, ear, ego, elf, era, erg, fag, far, fer, foe, fog, fop, for, fro, gae, gal, gap, gar, gel, goa, gor, lag, lap, lar, lea, leg, log, lop, oaf, oar, ole, ope, ora, ore, pal, par, pea, peg, per, pol, pro, rag, rap, ref, reg, rep, roe.
	Words containing the letters "a-e-f-g-l-o-p-r"
	+1 letter: leapfrogs.
	+2 letters: profligate.
	+3 letters: flexography, leapfrogged, profligates.
	+4 letters: flexographic, leapfrogging, profligacies, profligately.
	+5 letters: filmographies, flameproofing, flexographies, proliferating.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro.

Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

4C 65 61 70 66 72 6F 67

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)

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Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)

Braille (1829, in France) (references)

Morse Code (1836) (references)

.-.. . .- .--. ..-. .-. --- --.

Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01001100 01100101 01100001 01110000 01100110 01110010 01101111 01100111

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#76 &#101 &#97 &#112 &#102 &#114 &#111 &#103

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

004C 0065 0061 0070 0066 0072 006F 0067

British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

Country	Name
USA	Leapfrog Smart Products, Inc.
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Expression	Frequency per Day
leapfrog	479
group leapfrog	50
leapfrog terk	29
leapfrog toy	13
leapfrog leappad	11
leapfrog enterprise	9
wavemaster leapfrog	7
leapfrog quot quot	6
leapfrog iquest	6
leapfrog schoolhouse	6
leapfrog technology	5
leapfrog book	5
leapfrog learning	5
com leapfrog	5
leapfrog wireless	4
leapfrog internet	4
leapfrog venture	4
leapfrog game	4
leapfrog wavemaster 20	4
leapfrog explorer globe	3
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Leapfrog

Definitions: Leapfrog

Leapfrog

Noun

Verb

Specialty Definitions: Leapfrog

Military & Defense

Specialty Definition: Leapfrog

Leapfrog Enterprises Inc

Synonyms within Context: Leapfrog

Amusement

Crosswords: Leapfrog

Modern Usage: Leapfrog

Screenplays

Movie/TV Titles

Commercial Usage: Leapfrog

References

Books

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Usage Frequency: Leapfrog

Usage in Company Names: Leapfrog

Leapfrog Smart Products, Inc.

Expression: Leapfrog

Frequency of Internet Keywords: Leapfrog

leapfrog

group leapfrog

leapfrog terk

leapfrog toy

leapfrog leappad

leapfrog enterprise

wavemaster leapfrog

leapfrog quot quot

leapfrog iquest

leapfrog schoolhouse

leapfrog technology

leapfrog book

leapfrog learning

com leapfrog

leapfrog wireless

leapfrog internet

leapfrog venture

leapfrog game

leapfrog wavemaster 20

leapfrog explorer globe

Modern Translations: Leapfrog

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Hebrew

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Japanese Kanji

Japanese Katakana

Manx

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Swedish

Turkish

Ukranian

Derivations: Leapfrog

Derivations

Rhyming with "Leapfrog"

Anagrams: Leapfrog

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Alternative Orthography: Leapfrog

4C 65 61 70 66 72 6F 67

.-.. . .- .--. ..-. .-. --- --.

Illustrations:
Leapfrog

Computer Images:
Leapfrog