Synonyms for leaping

Princeton's WordNet(2.00 / 4 votes)Rate these synonyms:

1. leap, leaping, spring, saltation, bound, bounce(noun)

   a light, self-propelled movement upwards or forwards

   Synonyms:
   dancing, bounciness, dance, fountain, bounds, edge, terpsichore, give, bound, springiness, springtime, spring, leap, saltation, bounce, natural spring, boundary, bouncing, outpouring, limit, outflow, jump

Synonyms, Antonyms & Associated Words(1.00 / 1 vote)Rate these synonyms:

1. leaping(a)

   Synonyms:
   springing, jumping, salient, saltigrade, saltatory

2. leaping(n)

   Synonyms:
   springing, saltation, salience

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How to use leaping in a sentence?

1. Derek Brown:

   We'll have measures that take away the hospitality aspect of what we do. Six feet apart ? Who wants that ? Bartenders in masks and gloves ? It's hard to imagine an easy turnaround, we just don't know how it's going to go. It's like leaping off a cliff and building wings as we fall down.

2. Lewis Carroll:

   For I do not believe God means us thus to divide life into two halves - to wear a grave face on Sunday, and to think it out-of-place to even so much as mention Him on a week-day. Do you think He cares to see only kneeling figures and to hear only tones of prayer - and that He does not also love to see the lambs leaping in the sunlight, and to hear the merry voices of the children, as they roll amoung the hay? Surely their innocent laughter is as sweet in His ears as the grandest anthem that ever rolled up from the "dim religious light" of some solemn cathedral?

3. Ralph Goodale:

   Rather than leaping to conclusions, let the police do their job, let's get the facts on the table.

4. Ronald Crawford:

   She remembers him reaching in to get her and talking to him ... and she remembers he pulled her out of the car as she was looking back at the car and the flames leaping up.

5. Jeremi Gorman:

   The more that you can experience other cultures, I think the more value you can add to a company and to your life, secondly, the adrenaline piece of it. If I didn't have that in my DNA, I probably wouldn't work here [ at Snap ] because it was a decision that I made quickly, it was leaping from one of the world's largest companies.

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