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climbing frame

British  

noun

  1. a structure of wood or metal tubing used by children for climbing

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

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In Cricova, with the sun beginning to slide, women chat on benches on the main square as their children scramble over a climbing frame.

From BBC Sep. 26, 2025

The girl was playing on a climbing frame at the time while the 15-year-old boy was in the car park area on a bicycle.

From BBC Dec. 14, 2023

The playground was also doomed; city commissioners were not too keen on the designer’s circular doughnut slide or the giant climbing frame that seemed to extend five stories in the air.

From New York Times Jul. 28, 2023

Alfred Hitchcock, after all, didn't get famous shooting sequences in which badgers assemble ominously on the climbing frame beside a school, their heavy black bodies sagging over the bars like so many stripey sandbags.

From The Guardian Apr. 23, 2013

“Should of seen your face when the window went,” snargled Ross Wilcox as I got back to the climbing frame.

From "Black Swan Green" by David Mitchell

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