Remember how fun it was to play on monkey bars? They were by far one of the best activities on a jungle gym while we were growing up, and will likely be for our kids, too. As parents, it’s only ...

Looking to take your kids’ playtime to the next level? Then you’ve got to invest in some monkey bars. Easy enough, right? Well, the world of outdoor play is not what it once was; it’s so much better ...

A girl swings across the monkey bars, an invention adopted in the 1920s in Winnetka, IL that encouraged children to follow an ancestral drive to test their physical limitations. Anthropologists at ...

Since their invention in the 1920s, jungle gyms and monkey bars have become both fixtures of playgrounds and symbols of childhood injury that anxious caretakers want removed. Anthropologists mark 100 ...

At just nine years old, Lila Williams has already proven herself to be a daredevil. She loves playing on the monkey bars at recess, and recently got a pair of roller shoes (shoes with one or more ...

A team of Dartmouth anthropologists argue that such playground equipment is important for helping children gain confidence and develop. The jungle gym and monkey bars were patented in 1923 and 1924 by ...