Palaestra

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A palaestra (/pəˈliːstrə/ or /-ˈlaɪ-/;^[1] also (chiefly British) palestra; Greek: παλαίστρα)^[2] was any site of an ancient Greek wrestling school. Events requiring little space, such as boxing and wrestling, took place there. Palaestrae functioned both independently and as a part of public gymnasia; a palaestra could exist without a gymnasium, but no gymnasium existed without a palaestra.