Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Wiktionary
n. 1 (''collective plural'') A jungle gym 2 (''collective plural'') A row of bars, found on playgrounds, under which one hangs by the arms and crosses by swinging between bars, legs dangling down, like how a monkey might move across.
Wikipedia
"Monkey Bars" is a song by Magic Eight Ball, released as a digital single in support of their album Sorry We're Late But We're Worth The Wait.
Usage examples of "monkey bars".
How natural it all was, the little ones cocooned in bulky winter clothes--the temperature was eleven or twelve, he estimated--and running about, some on the monkey bars, others on swings, still more playing in what dirt they could find.
Gee, I remember this kid I was in kindergarten with, Scooter Morgan, and he got a bloody nose when he fell off the monkey bars.
The boy shoved his hands in his pockets and kicked a rock back to the monkey bars.
At recess the younger children surge shouting and screaming amid the swings, the rusted teeter-totters, the wicked monkey bars-where the nastiest accidents happen, or are caused to happen.
The blinds were half-closed, but she could still see the tetherball and hopscotch courts as well as the bottom portions of the slide and monkey bars.
Farther on, a cluster of hardwoods and spruce shaded a play area for small children, replete with swings and monkey bars and teeter-totters and painted animals on heavy springs set in concrete that you could climb aboard and ride.
Children on the monkey bars were laughing and yelling, but the wind and the distance swallowed their words.
The familiar open grid of most early games, like the monkey bars at the park, with seven or eight stars scattered through the grid.
The gradient of weight return was sharp enough to provide a thorough and totally unique workout to those who used the monkey bars instead of the ladder which ran down the back wall.
The gradient -of weight return was sharp enough to provide a thorough and totally unique workout to those who used the monkey bars instead of the ladder which ran down the back wall.