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palaestra
Ancient Greek or Roman buildings for athletic training, generally smaller than gymnasiums
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Not who you're looking for? Others named palaestra: figure in Greek mythology
A palaestra or palestra was any site of a Greek wrestling school in antiquity. Events requiring little space, such as boxing and wrestling, occurred there. Palaistrai functioned both independently and as a part of public gymnasia; a palaestra could exist without a gymnasium, but no gymnasium existed without a palaestra.