Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Wiktionary
n. A piece of playground equipment consisting of a set of interlinked bars on which children can climb.
WordNet
n. a framework of bars or logs for children to climb on
Usage examples of "climbing frame".
And he wanted to be alone in London, using the city as his climbing frame, asserting himself alone, before the night came for him.
There was a pool, and along with it a sand pit, swing set, carousel, play house, tree fort, and climbing frame for the private army of grandchildren, grand-nieces, grand-nephews, and seemingly limitless friends that appeared in swarms on sunny days.
Lines of headstones made up the perimeter, a climbing frame and three standard-pattern new houses occupied the central ground.
They'd donated and installed a climbing frame in the north playground a couple of weeks earlier and were talking about adding another slide.
Mothers comforted crying infants and toddlers, all of whom were pointing over their shoulders toward the jungle-gym climbing frame in the middle of the atrium there.
He saw a group of children playing football with a sagging, partially deflated old ball, trying to kick it between the stanchions of a rusty climbing frame.
It looked like an overcomplicated climbing frame, made up of long quartz-and-crystal rods that sparked and shimmered against the night sky.