gladiatorial combat

They strike the English eye as being attired for football, or a gladiatorial combat, rather than a summer game.

This gladiatorial combat might have been going on till now, the Sunday-school superintendent concluded, if Winch hadn't subsided.

Another tomb close by bears a notice of a gladiatorial combat to take place at Nuceria.

This was to be better than any gunplay, a gladiatorial combat to delight the hearts of frontiersmen.

Even a football game is a modern rendition of a gladiatorial combat.