The Collaborative International Dictionary
Leaping \Leap"ing\, a. & n. from Leap, to jump.
Leaping house, a brothel. [Obs.]
--Shak.
Leaping pole, a pole used in some games of leaping.
Leaping spider (Zo["o]l.), a jumping spider; one of the Saltigrad[ae].
Usage examples of "leaping spider".
Antryg and Daurannon swung around in time to see something huge and soft and dreadful come bursting out of the right-hand doorway into the upshaft, something that sprang with the horrible swiftness of a leaping spider but whose soft, billowing body spread like a jellyfish to reveal a ciliated mass of wriggling, saw-toothed tongues.
Then it was past them, a leaping spider-shape disappearing down the passage into the darkness.
Modular Man saw a dozen more serpents, a hundred smaller predators that moved like panthers on their half-dozen legs, scores of a strange creature that looked like a leaping spider, its four-foot-wide body bounding over trees on stiltlike legs.
Impelled by pure reflex, he jumped to one side, and the leaping spider pounced on the spot where he'd just been standing.