Who will mourn for the monkey bars? They're the kiddie Mount Everests of the playground but are seesawing, sliding and swinging headed down a disappearing path to extinction on the heels of the ...

Watching the kids at my children’s school play during recess, I was amazed at the facility older kids had with the monkey bars; they clambered over and under the rods as if they were, well, monkeys.

The Vuly Monkey Bars my kids have been using for over a year are a huge hit. They have withstood winter conditions and a ton of climbing from my four children and some neighborhood kids.

If it were up to him, he said, he'd tear all the monkey bars down." Kois then points out that one x-ray technician friend says 15 to 20 per cent of all fractures are due to monkey bar falls.

Children enjoy one of New York City’s first sets of monkey bars c. 1935. George Rinhart via Getty Images. Young primates have always invited serious injury by play-climbing and falling.

CHICAGO (AP) – Playground concussions are on the rise, and monkey bars and swings are most often involved. That’s according to a new study from the federal Centers for Disease Control a… ...

SKIPPING a rung on the monkey bars is the playground move most likely to land your child under the surgeon’s knife. ... “We want kids to be active, it’s better than play station,” he said.

"A monkey bar could be used in many different ways. And it, therefore, also affords creativity among children," she says. This all may help explain why the jungle gym has endured 100 years.

Monkey Bars And Slides, Oh My! ... For years, kids like Padiri didn’t have much in this neighborhood. He said the terrain was mostly “grass, poop, dirt.” ...

Climbing rate. In 2005, 23 out of 100,000 kids had traumatic brain injuries, a rate that jumped to 48 out of 100,000 in 2013. The rate declined in the previous years but increased steadily after that.