Playgrounds
Recess Reimagined.
Active Students, Better Classroom Outcomes
Recess is not separate from learning. It is learning.
When school playgrounds are designed with intention, they become more than equipment. They are environments that drive movement, build resilience, and support the whole child.
Youth physical activity research is clear: students need purposeful movement to thrive. Well-designed playgrounds increase active time, build strength and coordination, and develop physical literacy that supports lifelong health. They also cultivate problem-solving, collaboration, leadership, and self-regulation. These are skills that translate directly back into the classroom.
Research-Based Design: Using the Play On!® curriculum and standards-based design guide, schools can align playgrounds with national standards for youth physical activity, ensuring recess supports measurable growth across physical, social, emotional, and cognitive domains.
Schools that implement Play On!® may qualify as National Demonstration Sites (NDS), receiving detailed reports that identify play value, document improvements in student health and wellness, and highlight the playground’s impact on overall community vitality.
When designed well, recess is not a break from academics. It’s a strategy to improve them.
Play Is a Science— and We Majored in It
School playgrounds designed with best practice research qualify as National Demonstration Sites by PlayCore. Learn more at gametime.com/nds.
Get Active
Play On!® is a research-led playground activity program from PlayCore, developed in partnership with SHAPE America and play experts at Louisiana State University. The guide outlines how to strategically design playgrounds around the Six Key Elements of Play, creating spaces that support both recess and physical education classes. To maximize the value of the space, Play On!® includes an activity curriculum aligned with national physical education standards—turning recess and PE into meaningful fitness experiences.
Include Every Student
The 7 Principles of Inclusive Playground Design is a researchbased design guide from PlayCore, created in collaboration with the Utah State University Center for Persons with Disabilities. Using these seven principles, the guide helps schools create playgrounds that support the developmental needs of students of all abilities. Together, the principles inspire richer play experiences that celebrate diversity and bring children together through play.
Developmental Domains
Designing playgrounds for schools involves addressing the five developmental domains: physical, social-emotional cognitive, sensory, and communication. When we thoughtfully design environments that support these areas, childhood development is enhanced, social skills improve, and academic performance accelerates.
The Play On!® framework is built around the Six Elements of Active Play, each targeting essential developmental benefits:
Balancing
Increases understanding of efficient body positioning and control
Brachiating
Improves muscular strength and endurance
Climbing
Boosts coordination and spatial awareness
Sliding
Strengthens core stability, balance, and lower-body flexibility
Spinning
Enhances balance and kinesthetic awareness
Swinging
Supports aerobic fitness, muscular force, and wholebody awareness
Scan here to learn more and request your Play On!® Design Guide
Built to Move
The 7 Principles of Inclusive Playground Design® offers a thoughtful, research-backed framework for creating spaces that address the need of the whole child, the whole environment, and the whole community through the following design principles:
1. Be Fair – Ensure equitable opportunities across physical, cognitive, communicative, socialemotional, and sensory development.
2. Be Included – Support flexible access through ramps, climbers, links, and transfer platforms.
3. Be Smart – Use intuitive, sensory-rich design to reinforce play patterns, set expectations, and create a wellorganized environment.
4. Be Independent – Promote selfdirected exploration with accessible surfacing, clear travel routes, and slide transfers.
5. Be Safe – Design to meet safety standards while also supporting caregiver visibility and engagement.
6. Be Active – Accommodate diverse needs through sustained physical activity, cooperation, and socialization.
7. Be Comfortable – Create space for both movement and gathering, meeting diverse sensory and physical needs.
Scan here to learn more and request your 7 Principles of Inclusive Playground Design Guide
gametime.com/resources/7-principles
All Means All
Seven principles so everyone belongs
One Space. Many Ways to Play.
This arrangement creates a smart, functional play environment that maximizes space using freestanding experiences. Freestanding equipment offers a budget-friendly solution for schools while still representing all Six Elements of Active Play. Benches are installed alongside the perimeter for children who might need a quick break before returning to play.
Built to Grow With Your Students
Every school deserves a great place to play. This playground is designed specifically for schools looking to maximize their budget, delivering lots of physical activity without compromising on fun. Freestanding play experiences, such as the Sensory Dome and Duo Spinner, are placed near the central system, creating fun, social play experiences students love.
Designed for Playful Connection
Every element of this space is designed to encourage collaboration. On the left, freestanding equipment like the Duo Spinner and Sky Runner rely on momentum from at least two students for movement, naturally fostering new friendships. Expression Swings create attunement between riders as they move together, strengthening social connection through play. Musical instruments encourage creative and social play among students.
Quick Facts
Designed for the Way Kids Move
Playgrounds like this one utilize freestanding experiences to reduced congestion and accommodate more simultaneous users. Accessible poured-in-place rubber surfacing uses color to define different play zones, providing visual cues to help organize the environment so that it is easier to navigate and understand.
Sensory Rich and Sensory Smart
This playful space encourages children to explore a variety of sensory-rich features and freestanding motion and movement activities. These elements facilitate cooperative play and support motor planning and development to help children of all abilities comprehend and discover the world around them.
Let the Games Begin!
Children bond through friendly competition, and this playground design encourages it with a cyclical layout. A variety of climbers extend from the main system, branching out to either side, inviting children to use their imagination to create tracks and race against each other.
Bring the Whole School Together
Freestanding equipment, such as musical instruments or the Bounce Bash court, adds variety to the play space and appeals to children with a wide range of interests. These collaborative play zones naturally encourage social interaction, helping students build meaningful friendships through play.
Play. Their Way.
Inclusive playgrounds aren’t just about providing equal opportunities for children of all abilities—they’re also about welcoming different play styles and interests. The play space includes inclusive features such as ramps, poured-in-place rubber surfacing, an inclusive whirl, and half play panels providing both physical access and social inclusion for students who use mobility devices.
Designed for Belonging
This selection of equipment is ideal for schools aiming to create a well-rounded play environment with diverse play opportunities. Features like the Communication Board offer inclusive opportunities for children to communicate with their friends and teachers, while multiple high-capacity zones support physical activity across age groups.
GameTime has play systems to fit your budget, your space, and your style!
Every student deserves a great place to play. Let’s personalize a design for the perfect playground to fit the unique needs of your school.
Play Systems
Spice Run
#PS26310 $39,308
Recommended Ages: 5 to 12 years
ASTM Use Zone: 42’x29’ (12.8m x 8.9m )
ASTM Fall Height: 5’ (1.5m)
Blue Hen
#PT25028 $41 261
Recommended Ages: 5 to 12 years
ASTM Use Zone: 31’ x 28’ (9.4m x 8.5m)
ASTM Fall Height: 5’ (1.5m)
Backpack Bay
#PS26042 $47,250
Recommended Ages: 2 to 5 years
ASTM Use Zone: 40’ x 27’ (12.2m x 8.3m)
ASTM Fall Height: 4’ (1.2m)
Common Good
#PS26045 $50 073
Recommended Ages: 5 to 12 years
ASTM Use Zone: 46’ x 33’ (14.0m x 10.1m)
ASTM Fall Height: 7’ (2.1m)
Calculated Climb
#PS26041 $50 103
Recommended Ages: 2 to 5 years
ASTM Use Zone: 38’ x 33’ (11.6m x 10.1m)
ASTM Fall Height: 5’ (1.5m)
Lily Flagg
#PT25000 $50,936
Recommended Ages: 5 to 12 years
ASTM Use Zone: 46’ x 36’ (14.1m x 11.0m)
ASTM Fall Height: 8’ (2.4m)
Alda
#PT26306 $51 012
Recommended Ages: 5 to 12 years
ASTM Use Zone: 39’ x 32’ (11.9m x 9.8m)
ASTM Fall Height: 5’ (1.5m)
Central Line
#PT26309 $52,841
Recommended Ages: 5 to 12 years
ASTM Use Zone: 39’ x 35’ (11.9m x 10.7m)
ASTM Fall Height: 8’ (2.4m)
Martingale
#PT25032 $54 920
Recommended Ages: 5 to 12 years
ASTM Use Zone: 39’ x 31’ (11.9m x 9.5m)
ASTM Fall Height: 6’ (1.8m)
Cardinal Perch
#PT24016 $56 211
Recommended Ages: 5 to 12 years
ASTM Use Zone: 35’ x 35’ (10.7m x 10.7m)
ASTM Fall Height: 6’ (1.8m)
Renewed Energy
#PT24017 $56 565
Recommended Ages: 5 to 12 years
ASTM Use Zone: 43’ x 32’ (13.2m x 9.8m)
ASTM Fall Height: 4’ (1.2m)
Honor Roll
#PT26301 $57 995
Recommended Ages: 5 to 12 years
ASTM Use Zone: 36’ x 42’ (11.0m x 12.8m)
ASTM Fall Height: 8’ (2.4m)
Quilcene
#PT22002 $58 171
Recommended Ages: 5 to 12 years
ASTM Use Zone: 42’ x 35’ (12.8m x 10.7m)
ASTM Fall Height: 8’ (2.4m)
#XS24002 $59,409
Recommended Ages: 5 to 12 years
ASTM Use Zone: 40’ x 36’ (12.2m x 11.0m)
ASTM Fall Height: 7’ (2.1m)
Chosea Springs
#PT24008 $61 290
Recommended Ages: 5 to 12 years
ASTM Use Zone: 41’ x 32’ (12.5m x 9.8m)
ASTM Fall Height: 8’ (2.4m)
Study Break
#PT26300 $62,397
Recommended Ages: 5 to 12 years
ASTM Use Zone: 33’ x 38’ (10.1m x 11.6m)
ASTM Fall Height: 5’ (1.5m)
Riptide
Venturer
#XS24003 $62 708
Recommended Ages: 5 to 12 years
ASTM Use Zone: 47’ x 50’ (14.4m x 15.3m)
ASTM Fall Height: 8’ (2.4m)
Alchemy
#PT18018 $67 380
Recommended Ages: 5 to 12 years
ASTM Use Zone: 38’ x 37’ (11.6m x 11.3m)
ASTM Fall Height: 8’ (2.4m)
Between the Pines
#PT26304 $73 379
Recommended Ages: 5 to 12 years
ASTM Use Zone: 31’ x 40’ (9.4m x 12.2m)
ASTM Fall Height: 7’ (2.1m)
Mantis
#XS25000 $79 066
Recommended Ages: 5 to 12 years
ASTM Use Zone: 43’ x 39’ (13.2m x 11.9m)
ASTM Fall Height: 8’ (2.4m)
Better Together
#PS26046 $81,871
Recommended Ages: 5 to 12 years
ASTM Use Zone: 38’ x 44’ (11.6m x 13.4m)
ASTM Fall Height: 8’ (2.4m)
Woodmill Trace
#PS25025 $84,697
Recommended Ages: 5 to 12 years
ASTM Use Zone:53’ x 32’ (16.2m x 9.8m)
ASTM Fall Height: 8’ (2.4m)
Orchard View
#PT26307 $90 027
Recommended Ages: 5 to 12 years
ASTM Use Zone: 44’ x 48’ (13.4m x 14.6m)
ASTM Fall Height: 8’ (2.4m)
Knapp
#PT26308 $95,417
Recommended Ages: 5 to 12 years
ASTM Use Zone: 44’ x 55’ (13.4m x 16.8m)
ASTM Fall Height: 7’ (2.1m)
Overboard
#PT24038 $96,438
Recommended Ages: 5 to 12 years
ASTM Use Zone: 40’ x 46’ (12.2m x 14.1m)
ASTM Fall Height: 8’ (2.4m)
#PS25036 $97 044
Recommended Ages: 5 to 12 years
ASTM Use Zone: 45’ x 29’ (13.8m x 8.9m)
ASTM Fall Height: 10’ (3.0m)
#XS24001 $109 632
Recommended Ages: 5 to 12 years
ASTM Use Zone: 45’ x 55’ (13.8m x 16.8m)
ASTM Fall Height: 6’ (1.8m)
Alexis
#PS22018 $112 281
Recommended Ages: 5 to 12 years
ASTM Use Zone: 54’ x 37’ (16.5m x 11.3m)
ASTM Fall Height: 7’ (2.1m)
Meadow Pass
#PT26305 $97,594
Recommended Ages: 5 to 12 years
ASTM Use Zone: 51’ x 67’ (15.6m x 20.3m)
ASTM Fall Height: 8’ (2.4m)
Big Red
#PS25043 $104,179
Recommended Ages: 5 to 12 years
ASTM Use Zone: 55’ x 52’ (16.8m x 15.9m)
ASTM Fall Height: 8’ (2.4m)
Best Regards
#PS26047 $119,065
Recommended Ages: 5 to 12 years
ASTM Use Zone: 51’ x 46’ (15.6m x 14.1m)
ASTM Fall Height: 8’ (2.4m)
Westerly
#PS23011 $119 880
Recommended Ages: 5 to 12 years
ASTM Use Zone: 39’ x 37’ (11.9m x 11.3m)
ASTM Fall Height: 10’ (3.1m)
Virtuoso
Frosted
Advocate
#PS17211 $130 086
Recommended Ages: 2 to 5 years
ASTM Use Zone: 46’ x 55’ (14.0m x 16.8m)
ASTM Fall Height: 6’ (1.8m)
Twisted Trek
#PS22026 $140,282
Recommended Ages: 5 to 12 years
ASTM Use Zone: 43’ x 51’ (13.1m x 15.5m)
ASTM Fall Height: 8’ (2.4m)
Mountain Oaks
#PS24016 $140 662
Recommended Ages: 5 to 12 years
ASTM Use Zone: 59’ x 41’ (18.0m x 12.5m)
ASTM Fall Height: 8’ (2.4m)
Knapp Korner
#PS26043 $155,159
Recommended Ages: 5 to 12 years
ASTM Use Zone: 53’ x 55’ (16.2m x 16.8m)
ASTM Fall Height: 7’ (2.1m)
Jones Valley
#PS25003 $155 653
Recommended Ages: 5 to 12 years
ASTM Use Zone: 58’ x 40’ (17.7m x 12.2m)
ASTM Fall Height: 10’ (3.1m)
#PS26044 $242 705
Recommended Ages: 5 to 12 years
ASTM Use Zone: 67’ x 60’ (20.4m x 18.3m)
ASTM Fall Height: 9’ (2.7m)
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Silly Shapes
Freestanding
Play
Built to Add More Play Value
Freestanding elements like swings, spinners, and seesaws support physical activity, inclusive play, and playground games that build confidence and connection. Easy to add or mix in over time, they expand play opportunities and bring new energy to any playground.
Balancing
Balancing activities engage the muscles that stabilize the body while supporting key developmental skills:
• Improves posture and alignment
• Develops proprioception, motor planning, and bilateral coordination
• Encourages problem-solving and adaptation to different surfaces or challenges
*Brachiating is the very scientific word for overhead climbing.
Brachiating
Brachiating, or overhead climbing, requires alternating arm movements across the body’s midline, helping students develop essential physical and cognitive skills:
• Develop hand-eye coordination, core strength, and grip strength
• Strengthen bilateral coordination and cognitive processing
• Assess risk and build problemsolving skills through trial and error
Climbing
Playground climbers provide a fun, dynamic way for children to build physical strength, social skills, and confidence:
• Improves strength, balance, coordination, and gross motor skills
• Encourages strategic thinking and risk assessment
• Promotes cooperation through shared play experiences
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Wrinkle Wall Sidewinder
Catalina Climber
• Improve gross motor skills
• Advanged, intermediate, and beginner levels of climbing
• Transfer available
Climbing Walls
• Promotes balance, coordination, and building strength
• Varied routes of travel with hand grips all around the structure
• Metal climbing rungs and supports available in all standard colors
Climb The Catalina
Catalina can be configured to various sizes and heights, making it ideal for functionally linking areas of your playground to one another. Place Catalina near a deck on your play system and use it as a ground to deck climber. Install it between two play systems as a link or bridge. With Catalina, you have so many possibilities!
Visit gametime.com/catalina or scan the QR code to learn more about Catalina Climbing System.
Spinning
Spinning stimulates the vestibular system, which supports balance and spatial orientation, helping children develop key physical and sensory skills:
• Improve coordination and posture
• Regulate their sensory systems
• Build motor planning as they learn to control speed and direction
Stargazer
#6300
$2,887
Recommended Ages: 5 to 12 years
ASTM Use Zone: 15’3”x 15’3” (4.7m x 4.7m)
ASTM Fall Height: 4‘ (1.2m)
Fusion
#8477
$9,584
Recommended Ages: 5 to 12 years
ASTM Use Zone: 22’5”x 22’5” (6.8m x 6.8m) ASTM Fall Height: 4‘ (1.2m)
Infinity
Recommended
Partnering for Inclusive Play
We’re proud to partner with Inclusive Play UK to bring thoughtfully designed, inclusive play products to school playgrounds. As their official North American distributor, we work together to create fun, engaging play experiences that invite children of all abilities to play, move, and connect on school playgrounds.
Sliding
Sliding adds thrilling play experiences to any playground while engaging different muscle groups, helping children develop key physical and sensory skills:
• Manage speed and motion
• Build core strength for posture during descent and improve balance and spatial awareness for a safe landing
• Receive vestibular stimulation and proprioceptive feedback
Swinging
Swinging supports physical, cognitive, and emotional development for children and adults, alike:
• Builds coordination and strength in the core, arms, and legs
• Develops spatial awareness, timing, and concentration through back-and-forth motion
• Promotes emotional regulation through vestibular stimulation
Expression Swing Tandem
• Positions students at eye level with one another so they can work together and build momentum
• Provides vestibular stimulation to aid in spatial orientation
• Creates calming sensory input through rhythmic motion
GT Symphony
• Tuned to a pentatonic scale to ensure the right note every time
• Encourages collaboration and selfexpression through music
• Available with adaptive mallets
Ground Level
Ground-level play activities help students of all abilities play alongside their peers:
• Communication panels with BoardMaker® symbols allow children to communicate with one another
• Music provides a universal language where every child, regardless of ability, can express themselves
• Fun games like Air Bash bring students together through friendly competition
Amenities
Our collection of playground amenities can be used in many creative ways:
• Install rows of benches to create an outdoor classroom
• Place trash cans near playground entrances and exits to promote cleanliness and personal responsibility
• Add overhead shade to keep play structures cool during hot summer months
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Duraclad® Receptacle
Freestanding Packages
Designing a playground should be fun and easy! We created these pre-designed packages of freestanding products so you can quickly build out a complete playground for your school.
These images shown are to illustrate the variety of equipment in each package, and do not reflect actual required use zones between components.
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The Industry’s Leading Warranty.
Investing in a school playground is a big decision—that’s why we back every playground with one of the best warranties in the industry. You’ll also have access to a nationwide network of sales, service, and maintenance professionals who support you every step of the way, from concept to grand opening and beyond!
*For the purpose of this warranty, lifetime encompasses no specific term of years, but rather that the Seller warrants to its original customer for as long as the original customer owns the Product and uses the Product for its intended purpose that the Product and all parts will be free from defects in material and manufacturing workmanship.
• Lifetime limited warranty on PowerScape®, PrimeTime®, Xscape® & IONiX® and Modern City® uprights.
• Lifetime limited warranty on Tru-Loc® connections and upright bolt-through connections.
Lifetime limited warranty on all hardware.
Twenty-Year limited warranty on Timber Décor™ & Timbers recycled plastic lumber.
• Fifteen-Year limited warranty on metal decks, pipes, rungs, loops, braces, and footbucks.
• Fifteen-Year limited warranty on rotationally molded products.
• Fifteen-Year limited warranty on VistaRope® nylon bearings and ring junction pieces.
Ten-Year limited warranty on GTfit® THRIVE® and Challenge Course posts & bars.
• Ten-Year limited warranty on site furnishings against structural failure.
• Ten-Year limited warranty on SunBlox products.
• Ten-Year limited warranty on fiberglass and DHPL signage.
• Ten-Year limited warranty on cable components or freestanding cable events excluding premature wear on VistaRope WeaveTech cables.
Five-Year limited warranty on Tuff Forms® structures, including TuffCrete and PolyShield.
Five-Year limited warranty on all standard nylon nets on play systems, freestanding events, or fitness products, unless otherwise specified as a VistaRope.
• Five-Year limited warranty on GT Symphony Freenotes Harmony Park® components.
• Five-Year limited warranty on Super Seats™.
• Five-Year limited warranty on premature wear of VistaRope cables.
Three-Year limited warranty on Everybody Plays polyurea-coated foam & rubber strips.
Three-Year limited warranty on SaddleMates rubber and “C”-springs.
• Three-Year limited warranty on SureGrip Material.
• One-Year limited warranty on Challenge Course timing components.
• One-Year limited warranty on all other GameTime products.
TO THE EXTENT PERMITTED BY LAW, THESE WARRANTIES ARE EXPRESSLY IN LIEU OF ANY OTHER IMPLIED OR EXPRESSED WARRANTIES OR REPRESENTATIONS BY ANY PERSON, INCLUDING ANY IMPLIED WARRANTY OF MERCHANTABILITY OR FITNESS. Warranties do not cover damage caused by vandalism or abuse. Warranty claims must be filed within the applicable warranty period and accompanied by a copy of the original invoice or GameTime invoice number.
Research and Resources
Our parent company, PlayCore, partners with leading researchers and experts in the fields of play, outdoor recreation, inclusive design, health and wellness, and childhood development. These partners provide independent, research-based scholarly works to help communities design play and recreation spaces based on science and best practices.
Best Practice Design
PlayCore’s innovative design programs are based on scholarly research and can enhance your play and recreation project, taking it to a level of success beyond aesthetics.
Curricula & Programs
PlayCore’s standards-based curricula and programs maximize a community or school’s playground investment.
Advocacy Tools
PlayCore’s advocacy guides provide research to help impact public policies and budgets, maximize resources for play and recreation, and advocate for communities to increase recreation opportunities that advance health and well-being. GameTime also offers maintenance and supervision guides to help parents and caregivers provide a compliant play experience.
One Campus. One Partner. Everything
You Need.
GameTime works alongside trusted PlayCore partner companies to help schools create complete outdoor environments from a single source. From play to gathering to learning, this shared approach simplifies planning, coordination, and installation while ensuring everything works together beautifully. Award-winning outdoor musical instruments that invite creativity, collaboration, and joyful expression. These engaging play experiences encourage social and imaginative play while supporting a wide range of abilities and learning styles.
Durable seating and site amenities designed for school environments. Benches, tables, and receptacles are built to last and colormatched to GameTime equipment for a cohesive, polished playground aesthetic.
Permanent shelter structures that extend learning and gathering outdoors. Ideal for outdoor classrooms, dining spaces, and campus gathering areas, Salora Shelters create comfortable, functional spaces across the school day.
