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 ...

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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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

It gives new meaning to that favorite playground equipment, the monkey bars. Little kids on the playground let their imaginations run wild. They pretend to be roaring lions or howling wolves.