jungle gym
10
2.2
- noun
- /ˈdʒʌŋɡl dʒɪm/
- US
:
estructura para trepar
- After school, Sarah enjoys climbing high on the jungle gym with her friends.
- swings and jungle gym
- jungle gym and slide
- climb the jungle gym
It's like a big, huge jungle gym and they can play in their slides, places that they can pee and be sick.
- It's like a big, huge jungle gym and they can play in their slides, places that they can pee and be sick.
Examples
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Outside, she supervised the children as they scrambled over the jungle gym and used the swings to soar, nearly weightless, toward the sky.
Fiction book (1999) -
All that time on the jungle gym sure is paying off.
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When I was 9, I fell off this jungle gym.
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You guys just go back and have fun on your jungle gym, okay?
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Built along the left perimeter was a wooden swing set and jungle gym.
Fiction book (2001) -
Children were playing on the swings and jungle gym while their mothers watched them from a nearby picnic area.
Fiction book (1999) -
A dream playground, crowded with laughing children playing on swings, slides, and a jungle gym.
Fiction book (1991) -
Veronica was fearlessly climbing jungle gyms and swooshing down steep slides.
Fiction book (1992) -
The children laughed and played as they climbed the colorful jungle gym in the park.
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Every afternoon, the local kids gather at the jungle gym to swing and slide.
Synonyms
A set of bars or ropes in a playground that children use to go up and down on
How Challenging
Surface Forms
Morphology
The components 'jungle' (dense, tangled vegetation) and 'gym' (place for physical activity) give a metaphorical image of a tangled exercise structure; a B1 learner can therefore infer it's some kind of play/exercise apparatus. However, the specific idea of a metal climbing frame for children is a conventionalized sense that relies on cultural knowledge of playground equipment, so the relation is partially but not fully predictable.
Etymology
Jungle gym gets its name from the picture of a small 'jungle' made of bars that children can climb. Makers called it a jungle because kids climb and swing like monkeys and gym because it is a place for play and exercise, so today it means 'a climbing frame at a playground'.