And, after circling the chicken wire pen once, it took two dainty steps backward and, with an effortless leap, sailed over the four-foot-high barrier.

With his high and effortless leaps, Mr. Stiefel let his daredevil dancing convey his character's love of adventure.

Jenifer Ringer was as graceful as ever; Abi Stafford sparkled; and all the lesser parts - like the effortless leaps of Sean Suozzi - were brightly done.

Around noon, a young man approached a puddle at Sixth Avenue and 42nd Street and took a seemingly effortless huge leap - and cleared the entire body of water.

Al- though they moved with grace and feather-light tread, there was strength in their hind legs that carried them to the top of the refrigerator in a single effortless leap.

Like a dancer whose effortless leaps give no hint of the years of practice that went into achieving them, Yeohlee makes her painstakingly wrought clothes look effortless.

A single, effortless leap brought the Hulk to Spider- Man's side.

With an effortless leap, she cleared the spear tips of the iron fence and landed on the soft earth of a large grave.

When the thrusters went dead, Garibaldi jumped back on top of the bunker with one effortless leap.

Or the effortless leaps through the misty corridors of time?