Leapfrog
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- For other meanings, see Leapfrogging (disambiguation).
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 backs
- leap frog originated on winding way. the beginning distance was from one mailbox to another 4 houses down. the last stretch of the race may be run.
[edit] See also
- Anticipatory thinking (futures)
- StoryTech
- Leapfrog Enterprises
- Leapfrog University
- College of Education and Human Development
- Arthur Harkins
- John Moravec
- Frog-march (other motions resembling a frog's, but not jumping)
- Leapfrog is also the name of a sex position
[edit] External links
- Building a Leapfrog University
- TakingIT Global - (Inspire. Inform. Involve.)
