How to Use monkey bars in a Sentence

monkey bars

plural noun
  • My kids have told me about monkey bar tag, and freeze-and-melt tag.
    — Amy Schwabe, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 16 Mar. 2020
  • Martin swings, climbs on the monkey bars, and goes down the slide.
    — Beth Thames , al, 17 June 2020
  • And then the kids are on the monkey bars which birds use as a public toilet.
    — Sandee Lamotte, CNN, 7 Oct. 2019
  • On the slides, the monkey bars and the swings in between, no one standard reigned.
    — Washington Post, 10 Dec. 2020
  • Sturdy rafters or gnarly tree branches will do just fine, as will the monkey bars at the park.
    — Jay Willis, GQ, 11 Dec. 2017
  • My daughter wanted to go to her usual monkey bars in the park up the block.
    — Marie Holmes, Good Housekeeping, 5 June 2020
  • 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
  • The play area is equipped with sand, monkey bars, slides and other climbing structures.
    — Shanti Lerner, The Arizona Republic, 19 Aug. 2022
  • Inside was an obstacle course of tyres and monkey bars, and a shooting range.
    — The Economist, 16 Aug. 2019
  • On the playground, Zabih held Mojib as the boy crossed the monkey bars.
    — Los Angeles Times, 31 July 2022
  • Children had an actual playground, with swings and monkey bars to climb.
    — CBS News, 27 Feb. 2026
  • 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
  • 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
  • Hang from the monkey bars to build grip, shoulder, and core strength, or do push-ups with your feet in a swing, for example.
    — Jenessa Connor, Health, 20 Feb. 2026
  • 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
  • At one point, two of Senna’s friends tried to make it through the monkey bars obstacle and struggled.
    — Lori Riley, Hartford Courant, 15 June 2024
  • Design covers all the playground basics, like monkey bars, a fireman's pole, and three swings.
    — Sian Babish, chicagotribune.com, 22 Sep. 2020
  • In triple-digit heat, monkey bars singe children’s hands, water bottles warp and seatbelts feel like hot irons.
    — Jack Healy, New York Times, 11 July 2023
  • 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
  • Other kids formed easy relationships and tender bonds, taught each other songs and how to swing along the monkey bars.
    — Hazlitt, 18 Oct. 2023
  • These items' surfaces also provide a similar risk to kids as do swings, monkey bars, and seesaws.
    — Zee Krstic, Good Housekeeping, 14 July 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • My six-year-old daughter broke an arm falling from a set of monkey bars in Brussels, Belgium.
    — Carrie Lukas, Forbes.com, 2 Sep. 2025
  • 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
  • The brightly colored blue, yellow and green play structures include slides, monkey bars and climbing ropes.
    — Michael Cuglietta, The Orlando Sentinel, 4 Mar. 2026
  • Maybe Hemingway, who suffered from acute depression, should have spent less time at sea and more time on the monkey bars.
    — Stephen Miller, WSJ, 27 Aug. 2017

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