Leapfrog

For other meanings, see Leapfrogging (disambiguation).

Children playing leapfrog in a Harlem street, ca. 1930.

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 (called senakawatari, 背中渡り) in which one \'leaps\' while on the backs of the other players who stoop close enough to form a continuous carpet of human backs

See also

• Frog-march (other motions resembling a frog\'s, but not jumping)

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