leapfrog

1 of 2

noun

leap·​frog ˈlēp-ˌfrȯg 

-ˌfräg

: a game in which one player bends down and is vaulted over by another player

leapfrog

2 of 2

verb

leapfrogged; leapfrogging

intransitive verb

: to leap or progress in or as if in leapfrog

transitive verb

1

: to go ahead of (each other) in turn

specifically : to advance (two military units) by keeping one unit in action while moving the other unit past it to a position farther in front

2

: to evade by or as if by a bypass

Examples of leapfrog in a Sentence

Verb

Skipping his last two years of high school, he leapfrogged his classmates and went to college.

This year's technologies are leapfrogging last year's designs.

Recent Examples on the Web

Noun

For global companies, the leadership leapfrog is likely to accelerate, cementing shareholder activism as the decisive force in corporate governance—and the number of CEO heads rolling may soon set a new, even higher record. —Nick Lichtenberg, Fortune, 8 Oct. 2025

This creates a leapfrog effect: Early-stage companies can code culture, compliance and scale into v1, skipping the guesswork that once took years. —Expert Panel®, Forbes.com, 2 Sep. 2025

Verb

The new reasoning model not only leapfrogged the latest from ChatGPT juggernaut OpenAI, the still-private company driving so much of the massive AI spending out there, but was also trained entirely on Google's custom chips called tensor processing units (TPUs), co-designed by Broadcom . —Zev Fima, CNBC, 25 Nov. 2025

Google highlighted the model’s new Deep Think reasoning mode as a leapfrogging advance over previous Gemini and OpenAI releases, offering the technical community a tool that excels at both multimodal tasks and deeper logic challenges. —Nick Lichtenberg, Fortune, 25 Nov. 2025

Word History

First Known Use

Noun

1599, in the meaning defined above

Verb

1872, in the meaning defined at intransitive sense

Rhymes for leapfrog

• agog
• backlog
• bulldog
• bullfrog
• eclogue
• eggnog
• groundhog
• hedgehog
• prolog
• sheepdog
• watchdog
• analog

Kids Definition

leapfrog

noun

leap·​frog

ˈlēp-ˌfrȯg, 

-ˌfräg

: a game in which the first player bends down and another leaps over