1. A reference to gamboling, jumping about, or stepping to music: Some people go to special fitness-studio activities to participate in saltatorial exercises.

Marian's students love to do more saltatorial activities than those in other classes in school.

In addition to other insects with saltatorial limbs, grasshoppers, locusts, and crickets are among the most easily recognized examples of those creatures that have saltatorial back legs.

2. In genetics, descriptive of a single mutation that drastically alters the phenotype: A saltatorial phenotype is the appearance of an individual, that results from the interaction of the person's genetic makeup and his or her environment.