swing set
noun
US
: a wooden or metal structure that has swings hanging from it and that may have a slide or other things attached to it for children to play on
Examples of swing set in a Sentence
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On the swing set in the yard, there were no longer any seats, only metal chains dangling in the breeze.
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Nicholas Bogel-Burroughs, New York Times, 6 Mar. 2024
Her back yard was a suburban idyll: a swing set on an AstroTurf lawn, an oak tree, a small dog; Tel Aviv was only forty minutes away, if the traffic was light.
—Shane Bauer, The New Yorker, 26 Feb. 2024
One week, his team went to a home on a cul-de-sac with two kids and a swing set — the kind of place families take their children trick-or-treating.
—Lauren Peace, CNN, 27 Mar. 2024
Wide open space allows for tossing a football or frisbee while younger children can take to the swing set.
—The San Diego Union-Tribune Staff, San Diego Union-Tribune, 29 Dec. 2023
The yard held a swing set and other play structures for the children.
—Trip Gabriel Hilary Swift, New York Times, 7 Oct. 2023
The dead were put in white plastic body bags and placed at a children’s playground, beside a swing set and slide.
—Eric Nagourney, New York Times, 5 Oct. 2023
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In the end, he’s left sitting on a swing set, wallowing in his melancholy.
—Larisha Paul, Rolling Stone, 13 Sep. 2023
After giving the search a rest, V dejectedly sits at a swing set.
—Starr Bowenbank, Billboard, 3 Sep. 2019
Nicholas Bogel-Burroughs, New York Times, 6 Mar. 2024
Her back yard was a suburban idyll: a swing set on an AstroTurf lawn, an oak tree, a small dog; Tel Aviv was only forty minutes away, if the traffic was light.
—Shane Bauer, The New Yorker, 26 Feb. 2024
One week, his team went to a home on a cul-de-sac with two kids and a swing set — the kind of place families take their children trick-or-treating.
—Lauren Peace, CNN, 27 Mar. 2024
Wide open space allows for tossing a football or frisbee while younger children can take to the swing set.
—The San Diego Union-Tribune Staff, San Diego Union-Tribune, 29 Dec. 2023
The yard held a swing set and other play structures for the children.
—Trip Gabriel Hilary Swift, New York Times, 7 Oct. 2023
The dead were put in white plastic body bags and placed at a children’s playground, beside a swing set and slide.
—Eric Nagourney, New York Times, 5 Oct. 2023
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In the end, he’s left sitting on a swing set, wallowing in his melancholy.
—Larisha Paul, Rolling Stone, 13 Sep. 2023
After giving the search a rest, V dejectedly sits at a swing set.
—Starr Bowenbank, Billboard, 3 Sep. 2019
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“Swing set.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/swing%20set. Accessed 28 Apr. 2024.
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