leapfrog
noun
a game in which players take turns in leaping over another player bent over from the waist.
leapfrogs
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present tense formof leapfrog (3rd person singular).present tense
Used to describe things happening now or regularly.
Example Sentences
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It is Korda's second Chevron title in three seasons and ensures she leapfrogs Jeeno Thitikul in the rankings, after the Thai missed the cut.
From BBC ● Apr. 26, 2026
“Surrender” leapfrogs through Bono’s and U2’s improbable story in vignettes that zigzag between poetic and prosaic, devout and skeptical, privileged and conscientious, mystical and political.
From New York Times ● Mar. 17, 2023
The increase leapfrogs the Fed's 75 basis points increase last month for the largest since central banks began responding to inflation in force earlier this year.
From Reuters ● Jul. 13, 2022
If you don’t know where Jupiter is, the first-quarter moon leapfrogs over it Sept. 5 and 6, and the swelling moon sneaks past Saturn on Sept. 7 and 8.
From Washington Post ● Aug. 31, 2019
But Tom was most astonished to see how he fired himself off—snap! like the leapfrogs which you make out of a goose's breastbone.
From Journeys Through Bookland, Vol. 2 by Charles Herbert Sylvester
