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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[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