'leapfrogging' is a correct and usable word in written English.
You can use it when talking about a process of surpassing or bypassing others in order to achieve a goal. For example, "In order to stay competitive, the company is focusing on leapfrogging its rivals in terms of technology and innovation."
Farage is standing in Tory-held Thanet South, where he is confident of leapfrogging all three established Westminster parties, to win.
Italy only has three of its restaurants in the list this year, but its highest placed entry, Osteria Francescana, is up into second place, leapfrogging Noma.
Skateboarding children yelp excitedly: "It's Tim Farron", a resident in pink slippers collars him to complain about Poles leapfrogging the council housing list, and Calum, eight, invites him for a kickabout, which he immediately accepts, going in goal and high-fiving Calum when they score.
This album's 11th-hour manifestation – even its uppercase title, BEYONCÉ, looked like someone jumping out from behind a bush with a klaxon – meant that it was too late for inclusion on most end-of-year lists, but as well as leapfrogging music critics, its release depended on precisely zero airplay, hinged on not one TV appearance, and was not even teased online.
It's not beyond the realms of possibility that the new Richard Osman-hosted Two Tribes could suddenly explode in the ratings, leapfrogging from BBC2 to BBC1 and taking up so much of the adored brainiac's time he has no option but to give up his Pointless chair.
For instance, Microsoft is working on a search system with the intention of leapfrogging Google.
India's drugmakers offer 60,000 finished medicines; only three countries produce a bigger volume.Special report Running fast Leapfrogging or piggybacking?
Optimism about diffusion seems all the more plausible because of leapfrogging.
His foundation is now spending heavily to find new vaccines for HIV/AIDS and malaria, and encouraging research into cures for antibiotic-resistant forms of tuberculosis.Given the risk-averse culture of the health systems of the rich world, Mr Gates suggests that some great advances could emerge as leapfrogging innovations in the poor world.
Banks there are leapfrogging their rich-world rivals in efficiency, technology and innovation".This is the branch," says Om Prakash Bhatt, the recently retired chairman of State Bank of India (SBI), pulling his mobile phone out of his pocket.
