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Sign in to savethumb|The Palaestra at Olympia|palaestra at [[Olympia, Greece]] A palaestra or palestra (, or ; ) 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.
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thumb|The Palaestra at Olympia|palaestra at [[Olympia, Greece]] A palaestra or palestra (, or ; ) 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.
== Etymology ==
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