frog jump

frog jump (plural frog jumps)

1. A jump made by a frog.
   • 2009, Edward S. Barnard, Frogs, page 22:

     The longest recorded frog jump in the United States was made in 1986 by a frog named Rosie the Ribiter.

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.
   • 1964 May, Tom MacPherson, “The Jumpers of Calaveras”, in Boys' Life, volume 54, number 5, page 71:

     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.

   • 2017, Col N Hemachandra Singh, Admission No 857:

     He ordered them to start the frog jump.

   • 2018, Phillip Ward, Harry Lehwald, Effective Physical Education Content and Instruction, page 92:

     The frog jump is an important action for vaulting and for weight bearing.

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.
   • 1975, Jack J. Capon, Frank Alexander, Perceptual-motor Lesson Plans, Level 1:

     Keep frog jumping down the mats and frog jump over the two cross bars on the mats.

   • 2008, Joanne Elphinston, Stability, Sport, and Performance Movement, page 290:

     […] so kids started frog jumping towards the fall in area..

   • 2017, Col N Hemachandra Singh, Admission No 857:

     He ordered them to start the frog jump.