A girl swings across the monkey bars, an invention adopted in the 1920s in Winnetka, IL that encouraged children to follow an ancestral drive to test their physical limitations. Anthropologists at ...

A team of Dartmouth anthropologists argue that such playground equipment is important for helping children gain confidence and develop. The jungle gym and monkey bars were patented in 1923 and 1924 by ...

John Stamos's little boy is on the mend. During his appearance on The View Thursday, the actor, 59, shared that his 4½-year-old son Billy recently "broke his wrist" after a mishap on the monkey bars.

A beloved piece of playground equipment is turning 100 years old. The history of the jungle gym and monkey bars is full of weird and and delightful twists, spanning from Japan to suburban Chicago. A ...

Cover art for the initial serialized Tarzan story, 1912. Source: Public Domain Image This is a story about the origin of “monkey bars,” the playground stalwart that we still call a “jungle gym.” It ...