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leaping

leaping

leaping N

leaping
leaping

leaping ADJ

leaping SPORTS
leaping SPORTS

leaping N

leaping SPORTS
leaping SPORTS

leaping

leap VB (ing)

leap <a leap; leaps> N

imaginative leap LING

leap year <a leap year; leap years> N ASTRON

leap-year <a leap year; leap years> N

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We propose that birds evolved from predators that specialized in ambush from elevated sites, using their raptorial hindlimbs in a leaping attack.
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When all the players are stooping, the last in the line begins leaping over all the others in turn.
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While swimming, crabeaters have been known to engage in porpoising (leaping entirely out of the water) and spyhopping (raising the body vertically out of the water for visual inspection) behaviors.
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Finally, in the space of a quarter of an hour he was leaping, nearly three palms from the ground.
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It also glides while leaping which it does by spreading out its hands and feet when the extensive webbing acts as a parachute.
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They are known for their ability to capture birds by leaping 2m ft or more into the air from a standing start.
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He has incredible reflexes, which, combined with his leaping powers, enable him to seemingly bounce off walls (ricochet, as it were).
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Its actions are jerky, and it hops rather than climbs, leaping forward with one foot just in advance of the other.
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The leaping fish is a marlin, and the planet in the background is Jupiter.
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After 15 months, he escaped by scaling a prison wall and leaping on to the roof of a furniture van.
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