Leaping (root: leap)

• HYPHEN: leap=ing

CIDE DICTIONARY

Leaping, a. & n. 

 from Leap, to jump.  [1913 Webster]

Leaping house, a brothel. [Obs.] Shak. -- Leaping pole, a pole used in some games of leaping. -- Leaping spider (Zoöl.), a jumping spider; one of the Saltigradæ.

THESAURUS

Leaping

anabatic, ascendant, ascending, ascensional, ascensive, beaming, beatific, beatified, blessed, blissful, bouncing, bounding, capering, cheerful, chirping, climbing, dancing, flushed with joy, gay, glad, glowing, happy, hopping, hurdle race, hurdling, in the ascendant, joyful, joyous, jumping, laughing, mounting, pole vaulting, prancing, purring, radiant, rampant, rearing, rising, saltant, saltation, saltatorial, saltatory, scandent, scansorial, singing, skipping, skyrocketing, smiling, smirking, sparkling, spiraling, springing, starry-eyed, steeplechase, the hurdles, thrice happy, timber topping, uparching, upcoming, upgoing, upgrade, uphill, uphillward, uprising, upsloping, upward, upwith, vaulting

ROGET THESAURUS

Leaping

Leap

N leap, jump, hop, spring, bound, vault, saltation, ance, caper, curvet, caracole, gambade, gambado, capriole, demivolt, buck, buck jump, hop skip and jump, falcade, kangaroo, jerboa, chamois, goat, frog, grasshopper, flea, buckjumper, wallaby, leaping, saltatory, frisky, on the light fantastic toe, di salto in salto.