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Dome climbing playground equipment

Commercial COROCORD™ climbing domes serve as captivating landmarks, providing an impressive solution for playgrounds that offer attraction, exploration, and plenty of play capacity for numerous children. These climbing domes offer an exhilarating climbing experience for children aged 5-12, featuring net layers stretched between sturdy steel arches. The compact design of a climbing sphere playground allows for versatile play activities within a small footprint.

Why should you choose dome playground equipment?

The comprehensive COROCORD™ climbing dome structure encompasses a range of physical, cognitive, and social challenges that appeal to 5-12-year-olds. Even the mini versions of these climbing domes add fun to any play area, incorporating bouncy climbing and varied balancing challenges that benefit this age group. Commercial COROCORD™ climbing domes are available in compact forms with a single arch or expansive installations with robust steel arches forming a dome shape. With a wide variety of options, you can select a playground dome climber with sensory play elements, climbing panels, or other play components that suit your specific needs and preferences.

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Who benefits most from Dome Climbing playgrounds?

KOMPAN's climbing domes, particularly those with innovative designs, can make a striking centrepiece in your community or school playground. They offer endless fun with various climbing, crawling, and play options.

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1. Public parks and recreational areas

Dome playground equipment stands out in public parks and recreational areas in the unique Australian landscape, attracting children of all ages and abilities. This addition ensures lots of activity and creates excitement in the community. Adventure parks and outdoor activity centres can also benefit from commercial climbing domes, as they look great, inspire outdoor play, and encourage repeat visits.

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2. Schools

Climbing domes are a great fit for Aussie schools and educational institutions that aim to create a clever and enjoyable playground. Climbing activities can enhance children's cognitive abilities by stimulating novel movement patterns and promoting the connection between body and mind. Offering age-appropriate climbing structures with progressive challenges supports working memory and retention of classroom learning. Tween girls especially love to climb, and research suggests that climbing activates this age group on playgrounds; you can read more about the research in our white paper from the KOMPAN Play Institute.

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3. Residential areas

Our outdoor climbing domes are larger commercial versions of popular at-home climbing dome playgrounds. They are ideal for residential communities, where kids can gather, climb, and have fun challenging themselves with the rope nets. If you're interested in other rope climbing equipment, our climbing pyramids or climbing net playground equipment offer similar benefits and challenges.

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Benefits of Dome Climbing Equipment

Commercial climbing domes provide numerous mental and physical benefits while adding value to residential areas and increasing the popularity of surrounding parks and recreational spaces in your community.

Stimulates physical and mental development

Dome climbers offer physical challenges that improve children's coordination and stimulate cooperation between brain hemispheres, supporting academic skills. Climbing and crawling activities strengthen both motor skills and cognitive development.

Teaches risk management

Secure dome climbing playgrounds help children gain confidence as they learn to manage risks and experience a sense of achievement. Our rope playground equipment offers similar benefits.

Choosing the Right Playground Climbing Dome

When selecting playground climbing domes, consider age recommendations, playground area size, play capacity, and safety standards. Our playground experts are available to guide you in making the right decision for your play area and community.

Ensuring usage and ROI

While playground domes look appealing, ensuring children actually play on the equipment requires understanding the purpose and target audience of your playground site. Our playground experts can provide guidance on age-appropriate equipment, maximising the return on your investment and ensuring children's repeated enjoyment of the playground.

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Absolutely - climbing dome playgrounds are a smart investment. While commercial-grade structures may seem costly upfront, their long-term durability and appeal make them well worth it. Larger models not only withstand years of active use but also attract older children, extending the age range and value of your playground.

Inclusion might not be the first thing that comes to mind when you imagine a rope climbing dome playground. But that's in the past, as our new equipment brings inclusion even to many of these playground. So, yes, climbing domes can be inclusive. Choose the sensory dome, to make sure you have plenty of play options close to the ground, so children who are not able, or do not want to climb can still participate in the fun.

Yes, climbing domes and climbing play equipment is safe to play on, they meet all standards yet provide thrilling play to kids and have great repeat use value as they never get boring.

When planning your playground with KOMPAN, we will ensure all safety standards comply with safety regulations in your area. Please contact your local playground expert to learn more about playground and playground equipment safety.

They're made to last, even after years of play. Climbing domes use strong steel frames and thick ropes designed for outdoor use. The ropes are soft to touch but super tough inside, and the steel is coated to handle all kinds of weather. Some models also include flexible rubber membranes for extra climbing fun.

Everything is built for safety, durability, and years of active play.