overhead ladder; monkey bars
Playground equipment consisting of a horizontal ladder; children hang and move hand over hand.
The children are playing on the monkey bars at the park.
yunti; ancient Chinese scaling ladder
Historical military term for a ladder used to scale walls during sieges in ancient China.
The yunti was used in siege warfare in ancient China.
From Chinese 雲梯 (yúntī), literally 'cloud ladder'. The Japanese reading うんてい is the on'yomi of the characters.