Wordnet 3.0
NOUN (2)
1.
advancing as if in the child's game, by leaping over obstacles or competitors;
- Example: "the company still believes the chip is a leapfrog in integration and will pay huge dividends"2.
a game in which one child bends down and another leaps over;
VERB (2)
1.
jump across;
- Example: "He leapfrogged his classmates"2.
progress by large jumps instead of small increments;
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
Leapfrog \Leap"frog`\, n.
A play among boys, in which one stoops down and another leaps
over him by placing his hands on the shoulders of the former.
[1913 Webster]
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):
leapfrog
n 1: advancing as if in the child's game, by leaping over
obstacles or competitors; "the company still believes the
chip is a leapfrog in integration and will pay huge
dividends"
2: a game in which one child bends down and another leaps over
v 1: jump across; "He leapfrogged his classmates"
2: progress by large jumps instead of small increments
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0:
32 Moby Thesaurus words for "leapfrog":
bounce, bound, buck, buckjump, capriole, clear, curvet,
hippety-hop, hop, hurdle, jump, jump over, leap, leap over,
negotiate, overjump, overleap, overskip, pounce, pounce on,
pounce upon, ski jump, skip, spring, start, start aside, start up,
steeplechase, updive, upleap, upspring, vault