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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 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

Ms Gould said things finally came to a head when her daughter fell off a climbing frame in the back garden and a nurse questioned her height.

From BBC • Jul. 15, 2022

Children play on a rusting climbing frame, jumping on an abandoned mattress.

From The Guardian • Oct. 21, 2019

“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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