Definition

1. Noun:

   • A children's game: A physical game where one player bends over, and another player jumps over their back.
   • An advance bypassing others: A situation where someone or something advances by overtaking or bypassing others, often skipping intermediate stages.

2. Verb:

   • To jump over with the hands on the back: To play the game of leapfrog by jumping over a person who is bending down.
   • To advance by overtaking: To progress rapidly by bypassing others or skipping steps in a sequence.

Usage Examples

• Noun:

  • The children played a game of leapfrog on the playground.
  • The new technology represented a leapfrog in the industry, making older methods obsolete.

• Verb:

  • The kids leapfrogged over each other in the park.
  • The startup leapfrogged its competitors by introducing a revolutionary product.

Advanced Usage

• "to leapfrog over someone/something": To bypass a person, rank, or stage.
  • She leapfrogged over several senior managers to become the director.
• Used in business and technology contexts to describe skipping generations of development.
  • The country aims to leapfrog directly to renewable energy, avoiding heavy investment in fossil fuels.

Variants and Related Words

• Leapfrogging (gerund/noun): The act or process of leapfrogging.
  • The leapfrogging of technology is accelerating.

Synonyms

• Noun (game): Vaulting game.
• Noun (advance): Jump, bypass, overtaking.
• Verb (jump): Vault, jump over.
• Verb (advance): Bypass, overtake, skip, outstrip.

Related Phrases

• A leapfrog strategy: A plan to advance by skipping stages.
  • Their leapfrog strategy involved adopting the latest mobile banking technology.

Noun

1. a game in which one child bends down and another leaps over
2. 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

Verb

1. progress by large jumps instead of small increments
2. jump across
   • He leapfrogged his classmates