what is the name for...

[dubdobdee]

... this kind of climbing frame?



update: better pic for working out what i mean (the top one is a better photo qua photo)


also: are they still made?

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[catsgomiaow.livejournal.com]

I think they are called JUNGLE GYMS in the US but I'm sure I always just used to call them climbing frames...

[carsmilesteve.livejournal.com]

um, yeah, me too. in fact, i'd say everything else that didn't look like this should have a name that isn't climbing frame...

[dubdobdee.livejournal.com]

well you won't enjoy google-imaging "climbing frame" in that case d00d!

heehee i missed this one aw

[dubdobdee.livejournal.com]

[anthonyeaston.livejournal.com]

we always called them jungle gyms, now the fancy playground designers call them climbing apparatus. (though in the uk, apparently climbers is still in use, and they use wood instead of plastic like here) (http://www.playdale.co.uk/products_services/play_index.htm)

they have removed the wigwam and the square shaped ones around here because of death! (hoodie strings and the like)

[dubdobdee.livejournal.com]

yes i wondered if they'd stopped being made because of accidents

the designers -- paul and marjorie abbatt -- were legendary in middleclass england in the 60s: they made a lot of rather lovely (and prizewinning) all-wood toys

anthony

[anthonyeaston.livejournal.com]

i loved the ones made of old railroad ties and tires around here, huge things...maybe almost a story

[freakytigger.livejournal.com]

I thought it might be climbing grid but it turns out those are the walls made of rope which you get on assault courses and the sides of playground forts.

[koganbot]

Yeah, Jungle Gym in the U.S. and Canada, no doubt because of the comic strip and then movies featuring Jungle Jim.

[koganbot]

Actually it is the other way around. The comic strip didn't begin until 1934, whereas the "Junglegym" was patented by Sebastion Hinton in 1920 (invented for the nursery school of his wife Carmelita Hinton, who a decade and a half later founded the Putney School). Sebastian Hinton committed suicide in 1923.

[koganbot]

(This according to Wiki, anyway.)

a disapppointed man

[dubdobdee.livejournal.com]

"Hinton's chief goal, however, was to enable children to achieve an intuitive understanding of 3-dimensional space through a game in which numbers for the x,y, and z axes were called out and each child tried to be the first to grasp the indicated junction. Thus the abstraction of Cartesian coordinates could be grasped as a name of a tangible point in space."

oddly enuff, this topic arose bcz i was trying to dream up a nice clear image to explain the idea of euclidean pace to a total non-mathematician, and wonder if "a climbing frame infinitely extended in all directions" would to do job

(it wouldn't because there are too many difft geometries of climbing frame/monkey bars/jungle gyms to be immediately clear)

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[koganbot]

Also called MONKEY BARS.

[dubdobdee.livejournal.com]

based on the science of google-image, i think i would in fact argue that "climbing frame", "jungle gym" and "monkey bars" are synonyms -- and that few make distinctions within this triple-named category

[koganbot]

Yes, they are essentially synonyms, except that (1) I never heard or saw the phrase "climbing frame" until today, and (2) sometimes "monkey bars" is used specifically for the horizontal overhead grid that kids dangle from and move by "walking" with their hands.

[dubdobdee.livejournal.com]

climbing frame seems to be the standard brit generic; i guess it implies something a bit more 3D than wallbars

i dimly remember the one at my first school was always simply (and sinisterly) referred to as the "apparatus" -- i don't remember ever being allowed on it

[dubdobdee.livejournal.com]

[koganbot]

But when you say "This kind of climbing frame" do you specifically mean the boxes within boxes construction you've got pictured, as opposed to variants such as our friend Moebius:

[koganbot]

Or the Great Pyramid:

[dubdobdee.livejournal.com]

yes i specifically did NOT mean these kinds as they wd be v.unhelpful for the thought experiment i hoped i was able to get the readers to make

HOWEVER the english and/or american languages are not finetuned enough for my poetico-euclidian genius-precision :(

[koganbot]

"Boxes within boxes climbing frames except the boxes all have to be the same size and connected and there can be no overlaps, like a fucking grid, and what do you mean you don't understand what I'm talking about? Well, look at a fucking picture then. Here."

[koganbot]

(As a kid I always thought Jungle Gyms were boring, since after you climbed around in them once then so what? Also not big on swingsets or slides.

[martinskidmore.livejournal.com]

I think you'll find they are called things like 'Modular Cube' if you look them up under Sol LeWitt in an art book.

[dubdobdee.livejournal.com]

i bet kids aren't allowed to climb on the modular cube!