adventure playground
noun
chiefly British
: an outdoor area that has fixed and movable structures (such as slides and rope ladders) on which children can climb and play and that often also has equipment and loose materials for building projects and modifying preexisting structures
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The site’s cabins, safari tents, and Airstreams are the perfect launchpad for the area’s adventure playground, with outings like canyon hiking, rock climbing, and mountain biking nearby.
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Stephanie Vermillion, Outside Online, 4 Mar. 2025
The Gipson Play Plaza adventure playground will open in spring 2025 and serve as a new entrance to Dorothea Dix Park, the city’s largest green space that’s being turned into a destination park.
—Beth Luberecki, USA TODAY, 14 Jan. 2025
Meet two extraordinary local chargers who make the adventure playground that is Bend, Oregon, their home.
—Outside Online, 29 June 2024
Culzean Castle Designed by Robert Adam in the late 18th century, the cliff-top Culzean Castle boasts more than 640 acres of gardens, beaches, woods, trails, and adventure playgrounds for kids.
—Patricia Doherty, Travel + Leisure, 5 Dec. 2023
The estate’s park and gardens are also home to Dynamo Camp, an impressive recreational-therapy program for children with disabilities and critical illnesses that includes the first wheelchair-accessible adventure playground in Europe.
—Sarah Moss, Travel + Leisure, 2 June 2023
There's also an adventure playground, a splash park, and plenty of nature and park benches to go around.
—The Courier-Journal, 12 Apr. 2023
Two 300-foot-long land bridges connect the park to the waterfront, which Badin says was once separated by a major roadway, and more than 160 play structures, including a five-acre adventure playground with castle-like towers, swinging bridges and a sensory garden.
—Laura Kiniry, Smithsonian Magazine, 22 July 2022
New for summer 2022: an adventure playground featuring a low ropes course with climbing ladders and play structures.
—Karen Cicero, Good Housekeeping, 19 May 2022
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Stephanie Vermillion, Outside Online, 4 Mar. 2025
The Gipson Play Plaza adventure playground will open in spring 2025 and serve as a new entrance to Dorothea Dix Park, the city’s largest green space that’s being turned into a destination park.
—Beth Luberecki, USA TODAY, 14 Jan. 2025
Meet two extraordinary local chargers who make the adventure playground that is Bend, Oregon, their home.
—Outside Online, 29 June 2024
Culzean Castle Designed by Robert Adam in the late 18th century, the cliff-top Culzean Castle boasts more than 640 acres of gardens, beaches, woods, trails, and adventure playgrounds for kids.
—Patricia Doherty, Travel + Leisure, 5 Dec. 2023
The estate’s park and gardens are also home to Dynamo Camp, an impressive recreational-therapy program for children with disabilities and critical illnesses that includes the first wheelchair-accessible adventure playground in Europe.
—Sarah Moss, Travel + Leisure, 2 June 2023
There's also an adventure playground, a splash park, and plenty of nature and park benches to go around.
—The Courier-Journal, 12 Apr. 2023
Two 300-foot-long land bridges connect the park to the waterfront, which Badin says was once separated by a major roadway, and more than 160 play structures, including a five-acre adventure playground with castle-like towers, swinging bridges and a sensory garden.
—Laura Kiniry, Smithsonian Magazine, 22 July 2022
New for summer 2022: an adventure playground featuring a low ropes course with climbing ladders and play structures.
—Karen Cicero, Good Housekeeping, 19 May 2022
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“Adventure playground.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/adventure%20playground. Accessed 26 Jul. 2025.
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