palaestra in English
noun
1
(in ancient Greece and Rome) a wrestling school or gymnasium.
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.
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1. Roman Bathhouses often contained a courtyard, or Palaestra, which was an open-air garden used for exercise
2. Erik Berglund från Swebb-TV om Censuren med Anton och Jonas From: Palaestra podd
3. List of flag bearers for Rwanda at the Olympics Rwanda at the Paralympics "The Greek gods would be pleased--the 2004 Summer Paralympics revisited", Palaestra, September 22, 2004 "Rwanda".