En los patios de recreo, varioscolumpios are often suspended from the same metal or wooden frame, known as a columpio set, allowing more than one child to play at a time. Such columpios come in a variety of sizes and shapes. For infants and toddlers, columpios with leg holes support the child in an upright position while a parent or sibling pushes the child to get a columpioing motion. Some columpio sets include play items other than columpios, such as a rope ladder or sliding pole.
Para los niños mayores, columpiosa veces están hechos de un asiento de lona flexible, de una banda de rodadura de neumático ventilado de goma, de plástico o de madera. Una vista común del patio trasero es una tabla de madera suspendida a ambos lados por cuerdas de la rama de un árbol.