A playground, playpark, or play area is a place specifically designed to enable children to play there. Modern playgrounds often have recreational equipment such as the seesaw, merry-go-round, swingset, slide, jungle gym, chin-up bars, sandbox, spring rider, trapeze rings, playhouses, and mazes. Playgrounds often also have facilities for playing informal games of adult sports, such as a baseball diamond, a skating arena, a basketball court, or a tether ball.
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A playground, playpark, or play area is a place specifically designed to enable children to play there. While a playground is usually designed for children, some target other age groups or people with disabilities. Modern playgrounds often have recreational equipment such as the seesaw, merry-go-round, swingset, slide, jungle gym, chin-up bars, sandbox, spring rider, trapeze rings, playhouses, and mazes. Playgrounds often also have facilities for playing informal games of adult sports, such as a baseball diamond, a skating arena, a basketball court, or a tether ball. A type of playground called a playscape is designed to provide a safe environment for play in a natural setting. A playground might exclude children below a certain age. Separate play areas might be offered to accommodate large, large, or less aggressive children, because there is little opportunity for them to escape more aggressive children. Most research concludes that playgrounds are among the most important environments for children outside the home. Most forms of play are essential for healthy development, but spontaneous play is equally important for free, spontaneous, and free-flowing play. Playground equipment is installed in the play areas of parks, schools, childcare facilities, institutions, multiple family dwellings, restaurants, resorts, and recreational developments, and other areas of public use. The first purpose-built public-access playground was opened in a park in Manchester, England in 1859.
One of the first playgrounds in the United States was built in San Francisco’s Golden Gate Park in 1887. In post war London the landscape architect and children’s rights campaigner Lady Allen of Hurtwood introduced and popularised the concept of the ’junk playground’ – where the equipment was constructed from the recycled junk and rubble left over from the Blitz. In the 1970s and 1980s, there were playgrounds. in almost every park in many Soviet cities. Most of them consisted of metallic bars with relatively few wooden parts, and were manufactured in state-owned factories. Some of the most common constructions were the carousel, sphere, rocket, bridge, seesaw etc. The most intended purpose by the Playground Association of America was to encourage children to be active and to have fun in the open air. The idea of playgrounds spread worldwide in the early 20th century, especially in the UK and the U.S. It was only in the late 1960s and early 1970s that the most popular playgrounds were built in New York City and Los Angeles. In Germany, a few playgrounds had been erected in connection to schools, and the first purpose built playground in Germany was in the town of Dusseldorf in the 1960s. In Russia, playgrounds consisted of a series of metal bars and a few wooden bars, with the majority of them being made in the city’s factories. The USSR also had a large number of public playgrounds, many of them in parks.
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