It turns out that the history of the jungle gym, and its sibling the monkey bars, is full of weird and delightful twists and sub-plots that take us from Japan to suburban Chicago and touch on ...

Today, Hinton’s invention continues to fuel a debate about children’s health, in part because monkey bars result in more injuries than any other playground structure. Various versions of the ...

RAYNHAM — The general vibe at My Village Playhouse, a kids’ indoor playground which ... common features you find at a playground, including monkey bars, a sliding pole and crevices to crawl ...

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She opened the new indoor play facility in February in Chesapeake ... An active play area includes large wooden climbing structures, slides, monkey bars, tunnels and towers.

A team of Dartmouth anthropologists takes a different view, marking 100 years since the jungle gym and monkey bars were patented by arguing that the iconic playground equipment and other forms of ...

The High Court has dismissed a damages claim brought over injuries a boy sustained when he fell from a monkey bars in a playground. Ms Justice Marguerite Bolger said Daire Sean Hickey, of Corbally ...

Source: Public Domain Image This is a story about the origin of “monkey bars,” the playground stalwart that we still call a “jungle gym.” It starts not with the Princeton mathematician who ...