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frog jump

frog jump noun: a jump made by a frog.

Noun

frog jump (plural frog jumps)

  1. A jump made by a frog.
    • The longest recorded frog jump in the United States was made in 1986 by a frog named Rosie the Ribiter.2009, Edward S. Barnard, Frogs, page 22
  2. A jump that starts from a squatting position with palms on the ground in front of the body (or, in some cases, from a standing position, with legs spread wide and palms on a raised platform in front), where much the momentum comes from pushing off with the hands.
    • Saturday's events are the junior and senior frog-jump preliminaries in the morning, and in the afternoon the qualifying trials for the International Frog Jump.1964 May, Tom MacPherson, “The Jumpers of Calaveras”, in Boys' Life, volume 54, number 5, page 71
    • He ordered them to start the frog jump.2017, Col N Hemachandra Singh, Admission No 857

Verb

frog jump (third-person singular simple present frog jumps, present participle frog jumping, simple past and past participle frog jumped)

  1. To do a frog jump.
    • Keep frog jumping down the mats and frog jump over the two cross bars on the mats.1975, Jack J. Capon, Frank Alexander, Perceptual-motor Lesson Plans, Level 1
    • […] so kids started frog jumping towards the fall in area..2008, Joanne Elphinston, Stability, Sport, and Performance Movement, page 290

Forms of frog jump

Noun
pluralfrog jumps
Verb
third-person singular presentfrog jumps
present participlefrog jumping
past participlefrog jumped
pastfrog jumped

Questions about frog jump

What does frog jump mean?
Frog jump means a jump made by a frog.
What part of speech is frog jump?
Frog jump can be a noun or a verb.
What is the plural of frog jump?
The plural of frog jump is frog jumps.

Words near frog jump in the dictionary

  1. frog hairs
  2. frog in a sock
  3. frog in a well
  4. frog in one's pocket
  5. frog in one's throat
  6. frog jump
  7. frog jumped
  8. frog jumping
  9. frog jumps
  10. frog kick
  11. frog kicks

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