Bill and Mary are vying for the same promotion, so every project they do, they're trying to leapfrog each other.
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Leapfrog
//ˈliːpfɹɒɡ//
Synonyms for "leapfrog" (40 found)
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Related words (20)
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14 entriesTranslations
63 translations across 35 languages.
Armenian
2 entries- իծաշարուկ noun (game)
- հավալա noun (game)
Azerbaijani
3 entries- artırma noun (game)
- atlanbac noun (game)
- eşşəkbeli noun (game)
Belarusian
1 entries- чахарда́ noun (game)
Bulgarian
1 entries- прескочи-кобила noun (game)
Catalan
1 entries- viola noun (game)
Chinese Mandarin
1 entries- 蛙跳 noun (game)
Chuvash
1 entries- сысналла noun (game)
Dutch
1 entries- haasje-over noun (game)
Esperanto
2 entries- ŝaf-saltado noun (game)
- ŝaf-saltadi verb (to jump over some obstacle)
Finnish
4 entries- pukkihyppely noun (game)
- koukata verb (military: to advance by engaging the enemy with one unit while another moves further forward)
- loikata verb (to jump over some obstacle)
- loikata verb (to progress)
French
1 entries- saute-mouton noun (game)
German
3 entries- Bockspringen noun (game)
- überholen verb (to overtake)
- überspringen verb (to jump over some obstacle)
Greek
1 entries- βαρελάκια noun (game)
Hungarian
1 entries- bakugrás noun (game)
Icelandic
1 entries- höfrungahlaup noun (game)
Ido
1 entries- dorso-salto noun (game)
Indonesian
2 entries- lompat katak noun (game)
- lompat kodok noun (game)
Irish
1 entries- caitheamh cliobóg noun (game)
Italian
1 entries- cavallina noun (game)
Japanese
1 entries- 馬跳び noun (game)
Norwegian
1 entries- hoppe bukk noun (game)
Ottoman Turkish
1 entries- اوزون اشك noun (game)
Persian
1 entries- جفتکچارکُش noun (game)
Polish
1 entries- zabawa w koziołki noun (game)
Portuguese
2 entries- carniça noun (game)
- eixo-badeixo noun (game)
Romanian
1 entries- capră noun (game)
Russian
1 entries- чехарда́ noun (game)
Serbo-Croatian
4 entries- jȁrac noun (game)
- ùskoč-kobila noun (game)
- ùskučkobila noun (game)
- у̀скоч-кобила noun (game)
Spanish
4 entries- correcalles noun (game)
- pídola noun (game)
- rebasar verb (to overtake)
- saltar verb (to jump over some obstacle)
Swedish
1 entries- hoppa bock verb (to jump over some obstacle)
Tatar
2 entries- шыгырдый noun (game)
- шәкшәкәр noun (game)
Turkish
3 entries- atlambaç noun (game)
- birdirbir noun (game)
- uzuneşek noun (game)
Ukrainian
2 entries- до́вга лоза́ noun (game)
- цап noun (game)
Vietnamese
3 entries- nhảy cóc verb (military: to advance by engaging the enemy with one unit while another moves further forward)
- nhảy cừu verb (to jump over some obstacle)
- nhảy cừu verb (to overtake)
Welsh
1 entries- llam llyffant noun (game)
Sample sentences
22 total sentences available.
I loved leapfrog, walking on my hands, other ad hoc rough-and-tumble stuff when I was kid, but if I tried it now I think I'd put my back out.
Source: tatoeba (8967141)
They couldn't play leapfrog together because their heights were so different.
Source: tatoeba (8977326)
Tom and Mary played leapfrog.
Source: tatoeba (10236665)
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