Remember how fun it was to play on monkey bars? They were by far one of the best activities on a jungle gym while we were growing up, and will likely be for our kids, too. As parents, it’s only ...

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 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 ...