frog jump meaning: definition, quotations

frog jump

noun

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:

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:

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The frog jump is an important action for vaulting and for weight bearing.2018, Phillip Ward, Harry Lehwald, Effective Physical Education Content and Instruction, page 92:

frog jump

verb

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:

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He ordered them to start the frog jump.2017, Col N Hemachandra Singh, Admission No 857: