How to Use monkey bars in a Sentence
monkey bars
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Was the child on the monkey bars sick with a stomach bug?
—Nikki Campo, Wired, 25 Feb. 2022
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Martin swings, climbs on the monkey bars, and goes down the slide.
—Beth Thames | Bethmthames@gmail.com, al, 17 June 2020
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On the slides, the monkey bars and the swings in between, no one standard reigned.
—Washington Post, 10 Dec. 2020
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My kids have told me about monkey bar tag, and freeze-and-melt tag.
—Amy Schwabe, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 16 Mar. 2020
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On the playground, Zabih held Mojib as the boy crossed the monkey bars.
—Los Angeles Times, 31 July 2022
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And then the kids are on the monkey bars which birds use as a public toilet.
—Sandee Lamotte, CNN, 7 Oct. 2019
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My daughter wanted to go to her usual monkey bars in the park up the block.
—Marie Holmes, Good Housekeeping, 5 June 2020
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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
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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
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Sturdy rafters or gnarly tree branches will do just fine, as will the monkey bars at the park.
—Jay Willis, GQ, 11 Dec. 2017
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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
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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
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The play area is equipped with sand, monkey bars, slides and other climbing structures.
—Shanti Lerner, The Arizona Republic, 19 Aug. 2022
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In the clip, Ben jumps between a series of objects by using monkey bars to swing across.
—Georgia Slater, PEOPLE.com, 25 Apr. 2022
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In the clip, Ben jumped between a series of objects by using monkey bars to swing across.
—Skyler Caruso, Peoplemag, 21 Feb. 2023
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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
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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
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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
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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
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Inside was an obstacle course of tyres and monkey bars, and a shooting range.
—The Economist, 16 Aug. 2019
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Avoid the local playground jungle gyms and monkey bars.
—Sandee Lamotte, CNN, 14 Mar. 2020
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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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