Leapfrog
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Leapfrog is a children's game in which players vault over each other's stooped backs. The first participant rests hands on knees and bends over, this is called giving a back.
The next player places hands on the first's back and leaps over by straddling legs wide apart on each side. On landing he stoops down and a third leaps over the first and second, and the fourth over all others successively, etcetera; the number of participants is not fixed.
When all the players are stooping, the last in the line begins leaping over all the others in turn.
- There can also be variations, such as (both among the illustrations on these links to Smugmug [1] & [2])
- doing a similar trick on skis
- a Japanese version in which one 'leaps' while on the backs of the other players who stoop close enough to form a continuous carpet of human backsfr:Saute-mouton
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See also
- Leapfrog Enterprises Inc
- Frog-march (other motions resembling a frog's, but not jumping)