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a backyard skeleton built so children can practice the noble art of falling.
means A frame of bars, ladders, and platforms in a playground or garden that children climb, hang from, and clamber over for exercise and play.
from A plain compound of "climbing" and "frame," both old English-rooted words doing exactly what they say. "Climb" descends from Old English "climban," to ascend by gripping — a cousin of German "klimmen," and faintly related to "clamber" and "cleave" in the sense of clinging. "Frame" comes from Old English "framian," to be of use or make progress, which drifted toward "a constructed structure." Stuck together, they describe the apparatus literally: a useful structure for climbing. British English keeps "climbing frame"; Americans tend to say "jungle gym," a 1920s trade name evoking the limb-swinging of apes.
- old name
- jungle gym was coined in 1920 Chicago
- math roots
- inventor based it on a cube-climbing geometry idea
- injury hub
- playground falls send thousands to ER yearly
- grip skill
- monkey bars build the same muscles climbers need