jungle gym

Example Sentences

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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.

From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 26, 2025

"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.

From BBC • Dec. 5, 2024

In the distance, a group of boys climbed on a jungle gym.

From Seattle Times • Apr. 15, 2024

My four-and-half-month-old already loves climbing on me as though I were a human jungle gym; there is something rather bleak about the way Harry describes his touch-avoidant childhood.

From Salon • Jan. 20, 2023

Then he opened his wings as if to sense the wind or whatever it was he’d said before, and walked to the jungle gym, finding its farthest corner.

From "Chronicles of a Lizard Nobody" by Patrick Ness