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If you have monkey bars in your garden, do your kids use them?

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Gagamama2 · 07/05/2025 16:04

my kids love swinging and are now getting too heavy for the swing we have hung from a medium size tree branch in the garden. I’d like to get them a swing frame.

My son (9) is saying he would also like monkey bars. I’m wondering about getting a swing and monkey bar combo, but not sure. There’s much more choice if it’s just kept to a swing and I can find one that’s a bit more heavy duty so can last until they are older. But I quite like the idea of monkey bars from a strength / fitness perspective. They don’t have anything to climb currently in the garden because we have just got rid of an x-large climbing dome that I bought two years ago thinking the kids would be all over it…they barely went on it beyond the first week. Ditto a very cute Plum mini climbing frame - barely used aside from the slide becoming a slip and slide in the summer.

my kids are active and are on the trampoline and playing football every day so those have been good investments.

I’m wondering if the monkey bars would get used? Kids are 9, 7 and 5. Can anyone share their experience and any good models of swing or monkey bars (or combo) they have? Thanks

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1SillySossij · 07/05/2025 20:20

Yes. My kids loved monkey bars and it does build strength. We had the TP challenger climbing frane which incorporates a swing and you hanging bars which you can add on to. When they were bigger dh built bigger gymnastics bars and monkey bars, using big wooden 4x4 s as the frame and metal bars to hang on

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