NOUN
- a public place in ancient Greece or Rome devoted to the training of wrestlers and other athletes
How To Use palaestra In A Sentence
- Gleaming with oil, demurely home from the palaestra or the dance. MIND MELD: Gods by the Bushel
- It was two stories and built in a U shape, enclosing a palaestra or exercise yard, where athletes and other citizens would have exercised naked before hitting the showers— well, the caldarium— in the building itself. Log of the Eclipse (11)
- The Olympic Stadiums mainly concentrate in Olympic Green, such as National Stadium, Water Cube, Hockey Field, Archery Field, Tennis Center, Yingdong Swim Palaestra, etc.
- To the left of the Hellenic gate is the palaestra, an open area where young athletes would have exercised, and behind this is the Roman bath, divided as usual into frigidarium, caldarium, and tepidarium, depending on the temperature of the water. Archive 2006-05-01
- Afterwards I challenged him to the palaestra; and he wrestled and closed with me several times when there was no one present; I fancied that I might succeed in this manner. The Symposium
- He wants whatever Atticus may think proper for his "palaestra" and "gymnasium. Life of Cicero Volume One
- To the left of the Hellenic gate is the palaestra, an open area where young athletes would have exercised, and behind this is the Roman bath, divided as usual into frigidarium, caldarium, and tepidarium, depending on the temperature of the water. Log of the Eclipse (5)
- He noted two features special to Eastern baths: the absence of the palaestra (exercise court) and the diminished importance of the frigidarium (cold plunge).
- What shall we do, friend, with all these people; for, advancing step by step, we have imperceptibly got between the combatants, and, unless we can protect our retreat, we shall pay the penalty of our rashness — like the players in the palaestra who are caught upon the line, and are dragged different ways by the two parties. Theaetetus
- Part of the adjacent tepidarium was also revealed, together with a furnace-house, service rooms and part of the palaestra or exercise-yard with the remains of a cockfighting pit.
