Monkey bars were hard enough when I was a kid. But this week I tried them again, older, wiser, and with more muscle than I had back in the day. And you know what? They’re still really, really hard.

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 ...

Subscribe to BizTimes Daily – Local news about the people, companies and issues that impact business in Milwaukee and Southeast Wisconsin. Eight years after bringing Madison-based Monkey Bar Gym to ...

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 ...

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 ...

LITTLE ROCK — Editor’s note: This is the first part of a series about training to play on monkey bars. Mommy see monkey do, Mommy try ... Mommy fail. Lynn Husam, 41, was at the playground with her ...

At the stroke of 1:00 pm, a group of Tokyo IT workers spring from their desks for a few minutes of rigorous bending, stretching and thrusting as a voice on the radio instructs them—"ichi, ni, san (one ...

Fairfax County in the Washington, D.C., suburbs has plenty of shopping malls. Finance Park, though, is the only one exclusively for tweenagers. Every eighth-grader in this large, suburban school ...

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 ...