Meanings of desperate leaps in английском

The farmers on the horses laughed to see my desperate leaps and wrenches.

He will also, when hard-pressed, take the most desperate leaps to avoid his foes.

The deer made three or four desperate leaps in a zigzag direction, and then went down.

And so he ran stark-naked, with desperate leaps, and his bare body glistened strangely in the moonlight.

When I jumped off his back and struck him once or twice, he would make several desperate leaps and recover his footing.

We walked slowly, making desperate leaps over the trenches, sometimes perforce going through them, treading gingerly on the "duck board" at the bottom.