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leapfrog

 
Dictionary: leap·frog   (lēp'frôg', -frŏg') pronunciation
n.
A game in which one player kneels or bends over while the next in line leaps over him or her.


v., -frogged, -frog·ging, -frogs.

v.tr.
  1. To jump over in or as if in leapfrog.
  2. To advance (two military units) by engaging one with the enemy while moving the other to a position forward of the first unit.
  3. To avoid by or as if by a roundabout route.
v.intr.
To move forward or progress in or as if in leapfrog.


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Military Dictionary: leapfrog
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(DOD, NATO) Form of movement in which like supporting elements are moved successively through or by one another along the axis of movement of supported forces.

Wikipedia: Leapfrog
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Children playing leapfrog in a Harlem street, ca. 1930.

Leapfrog is a children's game in which players vault over each other's stooped backs. The first participant rests hands on knees and bends over, which is called giving a back. Games of this sort have been called by this name since at least the late sixteenth century.[1]

The next player places hands on the first's back and leaps over by straddling legs wide apart on each side. On landing he stoops down and a third leaps over the first and second, and the fourth over all others successively. The number of participants is not fixed.

When all the players are stooping, the last in the line begins leaping over all the others in turn. They also played this in colonial America.

The French version of this game is called saute-mouton (literally "leapsheep"), and the Romanian is called capra ("mounting rack" or "goat"). In the Japanese version (called 馬跳び うまとび umatobi, literally "horseleap"), one player 'leaps' over the backs of the other players who stoop close enough to form a continuous line.

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Translations: Leapfrog
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Dansk (Danish)
n. - springe buk, springvis fremrykning
v. tr. - springe over andre i køen
v. intr. - springe buk, rykke frem i spring

Nederlands (Dutch)
haasje-over, om de beurt inhalen (verkeer), ontlopen, sprongsgewijs vooruitkomen

Français (French)
n. - saute-mouton
v. tr. - sauter (qch) à saute-mouton
v. intr. - sauter (qch) à saute-mouton

Deutsch (German)
n. - Bockspringen
v. - einen Bocksprung machen, überspringen

Ελληνική (Greek)
n. - (είδος ομαδικής παιδιάς) "βαρελάκια" ή "μακριά γαϊδάρα", καβάλες
v. - παίζω βαρελάκια, παρακάμπτω

Italiano (Italian)
cavallina, giocare alla cavallina

Português (Portuguese)
n. - jogo (m) de pular carniça

Русский (Russian)
чехарда, перепрыгивать, увертываться

Español (Spanish)
n. - pídola, piola, derecho, salto (juego infantil)
v. tr. - saltar por encima de
v. intr. - saltar por encima de

Svenska (Swedish)
n. - bockhopp
v. - hoppa bock, hoppa, hoppa bock över, komma förbi

中文(简体)(Chinese (Simplified))
跳蛙游戏, 跳背游戏, 跃过, 跳背, 交替前进

中文(繁體)(Chinese (Traditional))
n. - 跳蛙遊戲, 跳背遊戲
v. tr. - 躍過
v. intr. - 跳背, 交替前進

한국어 (Korean)
n. - 목마 넘기, 남을 뒤따르는 임금인상 투쟁
v. tr. - 목마넘기를 하다, 앞서거니 뒷서거니 하다, ..을 피해서 지나가다
v. intr. - 등 넘기를 하다, 뒤따라 임금인상을 교섭하다

日本語 (Japanese)
n. - かえる跳び, 馬跳び

العربيه (Arabic)
‏(الاسم) قفزة الضفدعه, لعبه القفزيه (فعل) يقفز كالضفدعه, يتقدم بقفزات أو وثبات بالتجاوز‏

עברית (Hebrew)
n. - ‮קפיצת חמור (משחק), מפשק (משחק בקפיצות)‬
v. tr. - ‮קפץ בפישוק‬
v. intr. - ‮עברו (אנשים, מכוניות) זה את זה לסירוגין‬


 
 

 

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