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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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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

I found some spare parts for my son's climbing frame on eBay, spending £62.

From BBC ● Mar. 7, 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

Dawn Madden sat next to him on the climbing frame.

From "Black Swan Green" by David Mitchell

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