Snow can be...bounced around by winds in a process called saltation

I think of "saltation" as what flat stones when you throw them edgewise across the surface of the water, a.k.a. skipping. (Off on a tangent: consecutive skips are long-short-long-short-long-short-etc depending on how strong your arm is.)

It occurs in medicine, too. Small nerves conduct impulses contiguously, millimeter by millimeter. Bigger nerves are wrapped in a white substance called myelin, which is in sections of finite length that touch each other at "nodes." With them, impulses travel by leaps and bounds from node to node. It's called "saltatory conduction" and, since the steps are longer, it's much faster.

If I'm not mistaken "saltatory" means "jumping" (as in the French "sauter", to jump) and we also see it in "somersault".