jungle gym

noun

1. a climbing frame for young children

Word History and Origins

Origin of jungle gym¹

from a trademark

Example Sentences

Alexander dangled from the musket as if it were part of a jungle gym, while Beowulf was perched on the man’s head, wrestling vigorously with the hat.

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On a brisk sunny morning in MacArthur Park recently, children played on a jungle gym as an open-air drug market operated nearby.

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But that proved impossible, given the bench’s outdoor life, where it was used as a jungle gym for neighborhood kids, or a couch for friends to sit and philosophize about this piece of movie history.

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"There was no visibility. I kind of compared it to a metal jungle gym underwater," recalled Robyn Bianchi, the assistant salvage master for one of the firms involved, Donjon Marine.

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First there was a seesaw, then a tree branch to swing from, a big jungle gym and two ladders: one to climb and one to walk across like a bridge.

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