How to Use monkey bars in a Sentence

monkey bars

plural noun
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  • Was the child on the monkey bars sick with a stomach bug?
    — Nikki Campo, Wired, 25 Feb. 2022
  • Martin swings, climbs on the monkey bars, and goes down the slide.
    — Beth Thames | Bethmthames@gmail.com, al, 17 June 2020
  • On the slides, the monkey bars and the swings in between, no one standard reigned.
    — Washington Post, 10 Dec. 2020
  • My kids have told me about monkey bar tag, and freeze-and-melt tag.
    — Amy Schwabe, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 16 Mar. 2020
  • On the playground, Zabih held Mojib as the boy crossed the monkey bars.
    — Los Angeles Times, 31 July 2022
  • And then the kids are on the monkey bars which birds use as a public toilet.
    — Sandee Lamotte, CNN, 7 Oct. 2019
  • My daughter wanted to go to her usual monkey bars in the park up the block.
    — Marie Holmes, Good Housekeeping, 5 June 2020
  • At the Fletcher playground, two dozen day care campers splashed in the pool, jumped rope and played on monkey bars.
    — Elise Young, New York Times, 23 July 2023
  • The just-right tree branch or the monkey bars at your local playground can stand in as a pull-up bar.
    — Washington Post, 6 Oct. 2021
  • Sturdy rafters or gnarly tree branches will do just fine, as will the monkey bars at the park.
    — Jay Willis, GQ, 11 Dec. 2017
  • In the snap, the children were both all smiles as Willow gave her brother a hug around the waist and helped him reach the monkey bars.
    — Maria Pasquini, PEOPLE.com, 11 Feb. 2018
  • He is heartbroken about not getting to play on the jungle gym, hang on the monkey bars, slide down the slide, swing on the swings, kick the ball.
    — Adrienne Broaddus, CNN, 11 Oct. 2022
  • The play area is equipped with sand, monkey bars, slides and other climbing structures.
    — Shanti Lerner, The Arizona Republic, 19 Aug. 2022
  • In the clip, Ben jumps between a series of objects by using monkey bars to swing across.
    — Georgia Slater, PEOPLE.com, 25 Apr. 2022
  • In the clip, Ben jumped between a series of objects by using monkey bars to swing across.
    — Skyler Caruso, Peoplemag, 21 Feb. 2023
  • The dog park is a whirlwind of scampering mutts, and the playground is abuzz with kids swinging from monkey bars.
    — San Francisco Chronicle, 5 Jan. 2015
  • Think of it as a playground, but instead of monkey bars, slides and swings, there are natural toys.
    — Amy Schwabe, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 22 Jan. 2018
  • Everything from basketball to foursquare to monkey bars was fair play with that group of children and the Beavers.
    — Mikayla Pivec | For The Oregonian/oregonlive, oregonlive, 3 Jan. 2020
  • The new playscape behind their Woodlawn Lake-area home has two levels, a pair of slides, monkey bars, a climbing wall, a swing and a rope climb.
    — Richard A. Marini, ExpressNews.com, 22 Apr. 2020
  • Inside was an obstacle course of tyres and monkey bars, and a shooting range.
    — The Economist, 16 Aug. 2019
  • Avoid the local playground jungle gyms and monkey bars.
    — Sandee Lamotte, CNN, 14 Mar. 2020
  • People have asked me in the store, at a car dealership, while running, and while doing pull-ups on monkey bars at a park.
    — Joe Jackson, Outside Online, 11 Dec. 2020
  • Every childhood deserves a great set of monkey bars, and with a good set-up in the backyard, there’s no need to make special trips to the playground.
    — Popular Science, 26 Feb. 2021
  • Monkey Dome is more than 10 feet tall and features three ways to cross it, including using one’s arms to cross the monkey bars.
    — Charles Infosino, Cincinnati.com, 12 June 2020
  • Scrambling up trees, hanging from monkey bars, and even the simple act of growing make the device more likely to fail.
    — Lizzy Lawrence, STAT, 12 Apr. 2023
  • Made of gray cedar, this backyard playset has monkey bars, a slide, a rock wall, two belt swings, a double glider swing, and a sandbox.
    — Samantha De Leon, Chron, 15 Mar. 2021
  • Under the shade of large oak trees, kids can enjoy slides, monkey bars, climbing structures and toadstools in the playground.
    — Gabi De La Rosa, Chron, 13 Mar. 2023
  • Accessories include two belt swings, a trapeze, a rock climbing wall, monkey bars, a 10-foot slide, and a sandbox.
    — Erica Reagle, Better Homes & Gardens, 6 Feb. 2023
  • Palmer’s favorite challenge in the contest is called Spring Forward, a sort of extreme monkey bars where the rungs are roughly six feet apart.
    — New York Times, 3 May 2022
  • This sizeable two-story set comes with a clubhouse, two observation decks, a ground-level hideout, a rock wall, a slide, monkey bars, and three swings: two belt swings and one trapeze bar.
    — Lauren Wellbank, Parents, 11 July 2023

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