Usually means: Jumping energetically, often over something.
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  1. leaping: Merriam-Webster
  2. leaping: Collins English Dictionary
  3. leaping: Vocabulary.com
  4. Leaping, leaping: Wordnik
  5. leaping: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  6. leaping: Wiktionary
  7. Leaping, leaping: Dictionary.com
  8. leaping: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  9. Leaping: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  10. Leaping: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  11. leaping: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  12. leaping: Rhymezone
  13. Leaping: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  14. leaping: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  15. leaping: FreeDictionary.org
  16. leaping: Mnemonic Dictionary
  17. Leaping: TheFreeDictionary.com

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  1. leaping: Legal dictionary

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  1. leaping: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. online medical dictionary (No longer online)

Miscellaneous (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Brilliant Dream Dictionary (No longer online)
  2. leaping: Idioms

Slang (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. leaping: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. Leaping: Street Terms: Drugs and the Drug Trade

Sports (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Leaping: Sports Definitions

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Definitions from WordNet (leaping)

▸ noun:  a light springing movement upwards or forwards


Opposite:
bounding, jumping, hopping

Types:
high jump, long jump, triple jump, pole vault, standing long jump, vertical jump, running jump, scissor jump, split jump, more...

Phrases:
leaping out, Leaping Lena, leaping at, leaping house, leaping to conclusions, more...

Colors:
    emerald,     lime,     jade,     teal,     turquoise, more...

↻From "To Flush, My Dog" by Elizabeth Barrett Browning:

Than such chamber-keeping,
"Come out!" praying from the door, --
Presseth backward as before,
Up against me leaping.
1 of 27 verses


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Opposite:
bounding, jumping, hopping

Types:
high jump, long jump, triple jump, pole vault, standing long jump, vertical jump, running jump, scissor jump, split jump, more...

Phrases:
leaping out, Leaping Lena, leaping at, leaping house, leaping to conclusions, leaping to the conclusion, leaping pole, leaping spider, leaping to the eye, Tiger Leaping Gorge, The Mystery of the Leaping Fish, more...

Colors:
    emerald,     lime,     jade,     teal,     turquoise, more...




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