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Wrestling vs Palaestra - What's the difference?

wrestling | palaestra |

As a verb wrestling

is .

As a noun wrestling

is a sport where two opponents attempt to subdue each other in bare-handed grappling using techniques of leverage, holding, and pressure points.

As a proper noun palaestra is

, character in the play rudens of plautus.

wrestling

English

Verb

(head)

    • Noun

    (wikipedia wrestling)
  • A sport where two opponents attempt to subdue each other in bare-handed grappling using techniques of leverage, holding, and pressure points.
  • A professional tumbling act that emulates the sport of wrestling. Also called "professional wrestling". It is distinguished from sport wrestling -- which has strict internationally recognized rules and is conducted on a mat -- by being scripted, rehearsed, conducted in a boxing ring rather than on a mat, and programmed as entertainment.
  • (countable) The act of one who wrestles; a struggle to achieve something.
  • * (Jean Ingelow)
    • I'd count not wearisome / Long toil, nor enterprise, / But strain to reach it; aye, with wrestlings stout / And hopes that even in the dark will grow

    See also

    * clench * hold * counter * on the ropes * on the canvas * on the mat * ring * sumo, kanjin-sumo

    palaestra

    English

    (wikipedia palaestra)

    Alternative forms

    * * palestra

    Noun

    (en-noun)
  • (historical) A public area in ancient Greece and Rome dedicated to the teaching and practice of wrestling and other sports; a wrestling school, a gymnasium.
  • An arena for literal or figurative combat; a battlefield.