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Dama is a game with leaping captures played in the Philippines. It is similar to draughts or checkers. In it, a kinged piece may capture by the flying leap in one direction. The board consists of a 5x5 grid of points, four points in each row, [clarification needed] each alternating position with an end point on the left or right edge. Points ...
Fierljeppen (West Frisian compound of fier—"far" and ljeppen—"leaping") or polsstokverspringen is a traditional sport of the West Frisian people in the Dutch province of Fryslân. The sport is nowadays also popular in the province of Utrecht which produced record holder Jaco de Groot.
The Kuroshio can also take a leaping path across the Luzon Strait and into the SCS. This is seen as a strengthening of the Luzon Cyclonic Gyre to the west of the strait while the Kuroshio continues northwards along the eastern Taiwanese coast. The anticyclonic gyre normally present in the SCS is significantly weakened as a result.
Leapfrog usually is a merry children's game of physical movement of the body in which players vault over each other's stooped backs. Sometimes, when forcibly and near-torturously imposed upon unwilling adults (see Nazi uses below in the Variations section), the game has had less-pleasant outcomes.
Jumping or leaping is a form of locomotion or movement in which an organism or non-living (e.g., robotic) mechanical system propels itself through the air along a ballistic trajectory. Jumping can be distinguished from running, galloping and other gaits where the entire body is temporarily airborne, by the relatively long duration of the aerial ...
Lanny Mark Poffo (December 28, 1954 – February 2, 2023) better known by his ring names "Leaping" Lanny Poffo and the Genius, was a Canadian-American professional wrestler, motivational speaker, poet, and actor. Poffo was a second generation professional wrestler, his father being Angelo Poffo.
The origins of the shepherd's leap may date back to the Guanches, the aboriginal inhabitants of the islands prior to the Castilian conquest period of the early 15th century. Canarian shepherds required a specialised means of transporting themselves safely across ravines and down steep embankments, and settled on the use of long wooden poles ...
The CPP devised a plan called a "strategic counteroffensive" (SCO) with the aim of "leaping over" to a higher stage of armed revolution and quickly win the revolution. The SCO program led to "regularization" of units, urban partisan actions, peasant uprisings, and an insurrectionist concept of "seizing opportunities".