leapfrogging

verb

present participle of leapfrog
1
as in skipping

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2
as in avoiding

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Recent Examples of Synonyms for leapfrogging
  1. skipping
  2. avoiding
  3. leaping
  4. evading
  5. jumping
  6. escaping
  7. loping
  8. eschewing
Verb
  • But research shows that skipping your first meal of the day could lead to greater blood sugar spikes later on.
    — Trista Chan, HEALTH, 12 Oct. 2026
  • Avoid skipping meals, and eat adequate amounts of nutritious whole foods.
    — Audrey Noble, Vogue, 9 Oct. 2026
Definition of skipping
Verb
  • Her style is pithy and blunt, avoiding the ornate sentence structure of classical German.
    — Alex Ross, New Yorker, 12 Oct. 2026
  • However early the experiment might be, the launch is a milestone for an emerging technology that has the potential to help meet AI’s growing demand for compute while avoiding the constraints on resources like power, water, and land on Earth.
    — Marco Quiroz-Gutierrez, Fortune, 10 Oct. 2026
Definition of avoiding
Verb
  • After Mesa's homer gave the Rays a 4-2 lead, Anthony Volpe appeared to hit a two-run shot against Griffin Jax with two outs in the bottom half as a fan reached over the left-field wall and caught the ball over the glove of a leaping Mesa.
    — CBS News, CBS News, 8 Oct. 2026
  • The father, throwing his children out of the window of their burning home, leaping out after them and taking the lead bullets with his own body.
    — Jim Masters, Chicago Tribune, 8 Oct. 2026
Definition of leaping
Verb
  • The new Marvel series will see the hero grapple with his identity and humanity while evading a bounty hunter and reuniting with his son.
    — Tracy Brown, Los Angeles Times, 14 Oct. 2026
  • The suspects were booked into the Fort Worth City Jail and face charges of burglary of a building, evading arrest or detention, and criminal mischief, according to police records.
    — Harriet Ramos, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 14 Oct. 2026
Definition of evading
Verb
  • We were all riveted by the image of a glass of red wine undisturbed by a woman jumping next to it on the bed and the idea of sleeping on memory foam originally developed by NASA, now available to us.
    — Jaklin Romine Oct. 15, Los Angeles Times, 15 Oct. 2026
  • Shares are jumping Thursday as part of the market’s rotation into defensive names.
    — Alexa LoMonaco,Kevin Stankiewicz, CNBC, 15 Oct. 2026
Definition of jumping
Verb
  • As the comet rotates, fresh ice enters the sunlight and sublimates; the escaping gas then drags entrained dust particles away from the nucleus.
    — Joe Rao, Space.com, 13 Oct. 2026
  • What better way to pass the hours than by escaping into a good book?
    — Hannah Jackson, Vogue, 13 Oct. 2026
Definition of escaping
Verb
  • Typical is a homeowner’s video from the other day of a coyote loping down a driveway in DeKalb’s Glendale Courts area.
    — Charles Seabrook, AJC.com, 16 Aug. 2026
  • Gradually, though, dubby hand percussion rises up from the deep, and soon a truculent, alien-sounding riff and loping dancehall cadence spin the compass point back toward Batu’s Bristol.
    — Philip Sherburne, Pitchfork, 6 July 2026
Definition of loping
Verb
  • Some, including the Idaho Potato Commission, swear that the way a baked potato is opened affects the texture, eschewing a knife for a fork to gently poke a plus sign into the surface.
    — Rebecca Firkser, Bon Appetit Magazine, 8 Oct. 2026
  • With his father Dick stepping away from the daily operations, Walker received credit for eschewing the franchise’s silo approach that featured loyalty to incompetence.
    — Troy Renck, Denver Post, 1 Oct. 2026
Definition of eschewing
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“Leapfrogging.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/leapfrogging. Accessed 18 Oct. 2026.

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