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a kid's first taste of calculated risk, painted in playground primary colors
means A climbing structure of metal or plastic bars and frames found on playgrounds, designed for children to clamber, hang, and scramble across.
from A compound of "jungle" and "gym," coined in early 20th-century America. "Jungle" comes through English from Hindi "jangal" and Sanskrit "jangala," meaning wild, uncultivated land — the climbing frame evoking the tangle of vines a child might swing through. "Gym" is clipped from "gymnasium," itself from Greek "gymnasion," a place of exercise (literally rooted in "gymnos," naked, since the Greeks trained bare). The specific word "Junglegym" was in fact a trademarked name for the apparatus, which slipped into everyday speech the way "escalator" and "zipper" did.
- inventor
- patented in 1920 by mathematician Sebastian Hinton
- original aim
- teach children to think in three dimensions
- name origin
- Hinton's father coined 'jungle gym' branding
- physics lesson
- first lesson in gravity is rarely gentle
junglegym at central park — multiple vintage metal climbing gyms throughout central park, new york city