Leaping
Start
Start noun - The point at which something begins.
Both words in one sentence
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Once you bring them down to half their HP, they go berserk and start acting like gnoll hunters: running faster, leaping over barricades and trying to wreck your shit.
Source: Video Game / Orcs Must Die! -
The caracal, an African cat roughly the size of a collie dog, is a specialist at leaping up to snatch birds in flight, and can jump 10' into the air from a crouching start.
Source: In a Single Bound -
Uh Oh...: The first 10-man rumble at the start of the 8th episode of season 1 began with seven of the ten luchadors in the ring (all of them except Drago and King Cuerno) led by Prince Puma leaping onto Big Ryck and pounding him from all sides.
Source: Wrestling / Lucha Underground
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