gladiator

Digger enters that room like a gladiator braving the ring.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 29, 2026

Hunt says "looking good and feeling good" is all part of her process to get into the right mindset, and likens walking out on to the track to a gladiator entering an arena.

From BBC ● Aug. 14, 2026

On this week’s Amicus podcast, Dahlia Lithwick talked with election law gladiator Marc Elias, chair of Elias Law Group and founder of Democracy Docket.

From Slate ● Feb. 10, 2026

Commodus, now a teenager, had shown he had none of his father’s nature; he so preferred athletics to statecraft that some believed he’d been sired by a gladiator.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 11, 2026

Finally they reached the Colosseum, where a dozen guys in cheap gladiator costumes were scuffling with the police—plastic swords versus batons.

From "The Mark of Athena" by Rick Riordan

"People have always wanted to watch other people doing crazy stuff," he says, comparing the mass appeal of those gathered in pursuit of cheese on Cooper's Hill to "gladiators fighting in the Colosseum in Rome".

From BBC ● May 22, 2026

One of the most regrettable absences, as Mr. Sidebottom notes, is the paucity of material on the training of gladiators in their ludi, or schools.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 3, 2026

History is on the line in the Australian Open men's final on Sunday with tennis gladiators Novak Djokovic and Carlos Alcaraz each vowing no surrender.

From Barron's ● Jan. 31, 2026

But Ashur sees her and the rest of his gladiators as property, believing his wealth and diplomatic acumen can one day buy him a seat at the table of Rome’s most powerful.

From Salon ● Dec. 7, 2025

In ancient Rome, the gladiators who won the most were the ones who were left-handed.

From "Aru Shah and the End of Time" by Roshani Chokshi