leapfrog has definitions from the field of games
1
[ noun ] advancing as if in the game of leapfrog

Used in print

(Robert A. Futterman, The Future of Our Cities....)

It is merely the latest example of the leapfrog growth which formed the pattern of virtually all American cities .

The `` leapfrog '' was a phenomenon of the railroad and the steam_turbine , and the time when the belts of residence surrounding the old factory area were not_yet blighted .

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progress

2
[ verb ] jump across

Examples

"He leapfrogged his classmates"

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jump

3
[ verb ] progress by large jumps instead of small increments

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progress

4
[ noun ] (games) a game in which one child bends down and another leaps over

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child's_game

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