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Are there graves underneath the jungle gym where those kids are climbing?
—Christina Ray Stanton, Smithsonian Magazine, 28 Oct. 2024
Vast factories and processing plants slumped into the earth, stripped bare like knotted jungle gyms.
—Sean Williams, Harper's Magazine, 23 Sep. 2024
These anthropologists’ work recently substantiated a hundred-plus-year-old proposal when the jungle gym and monkey bars were invented in 1902 and implemented in the progressive education system of the Chicago suburbs.
—Carly Miller, Forbes, 11 Oct. 2024
The infamous jungle gym on which the birds ominously gathered before divebombing fleeing schoolchildren is gone.
Also seen in the movie – and located right next to the schoolhouse – is the mid-19th century St. Teresa of Avila Catholic Church.
—Dan Fellner, The Arizona Republic, 19 Sep. 2024
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Word History
Etymology
from Junglegym, a trademark
First Known Use
1923, in the meaning defined above
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“Jungle gym.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/jungle%20gym. Accessed 5 Nov. 2024.
Kids Definition
jungle gym
noun
: a structure of upright and crosswise bars for use by children at play
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