LEAPING

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does leaping mean? 

• LEAPING (noun)
  The noun LEAPING has 1 sense:

1. a light, self-propelled movement upwards or forwards

  Familiarity information: LEAPING used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• LEAPING (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A light, self-propelled movement upwards or forwards

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Synonyms:

bounce; bound; leap; leaping; saltation; spring

Hypernyms ("leaping" is a kind of...):

jump; jumping (the act of jumping; propelling yourself off the ground)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "leaping"):

caper; capriole (a playful leap or hop)

pounce (the act of pouncing)

 Context examples 

It no longer was as one dog leaping in the traces.

(The Call of the Wild, by Jack London)

The party spread itself abroad, in a fan shape, shouting and leaping to and fro.

(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)

Numbers of the passengers were leaping overboard.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

It was a fearful cry, but the fox, leaping away in fright, did not drop the ptarmigan.

(Love of Life and Other Stories, by Jack London)

“Hola!” yelled Aylward, leaping suddenly into the air with waving hands and joyous face.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

He saw a weasel leaping swiftly away from him.

(White Fang, by Jack London)

With that encounter, Cassini will begin its Grand Finale, leaping over the rings and making the first of 22 plunges through the 1,500-mile-wide (2,400-kilometer) gap between Saturn and its innermost ring on April 26.

(Over Saturn's Turbulent North, NASA)

He went home with leaping pulse, wondering how much they would pay him for one of the best things he had done.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

She was leaping for them, when Van Helsing sprang forward and held between them his little golden crucifix.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

I was in the utmost astonishment, and roared so loud, that they all ran back in a fright; and some of them, as I was afterwards told, were hurt with the falls they got by leaping from my sides upon the ground.

(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)