coliseum

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Professional athletes run up and down courts or across fields in their glory – before exiting their coliseums, in their designer threads, jumping into their quarter-million-dollar cars, and off to live their lavish lives.

From Salon • Aug. 22, 2023

But the courses will have been replaced with high-tech coliseums where robots engage in gladiatorial contests, remotely controlled by children from the state-run youth hostels.

From Washington Post • Jun. 7, 2016

The easy way out is not the right way, especially when I still have my buddies over there in the sandbox—defending the rights of the heroes of the idiot box and our modern-day coliseums.

From Salon • Jun. 8, 2013

This time, only the Yale Bowl, the Boston Garden, San Antonio's HemisFair Arena and other massive coliseums would do; at Madison Square Garden, for example, they drew a crowd of 20,000.

From Time Magazine Archive

They were borne through an architecture of aqueous and plutonic agencies whose smallest fantasies would be belittled by comparisons with coliseums, labyrinths, cathedrals, pyramids, and stonehenges.

From Overland by De Forest, J. W. (John William)