The event draws the world's best sailing teams to Portimão in a gladiatorial battle of nerve and skill on the water.

Physically, too, she conveyed a clear sense of grappling with powerful forces: in sections of the Allegro con brio ed appassionato, she seemed almost to be in a gladiatorial battle with the piano.

Bite marks on one skeleton suggest that the gladiator was bitten by a large carnivore which would be consistent with gladiatorial battles in Ancient Rome.

But the interior of the Colosseum - in its heyday the setting for mock sea battles, animal hunts and countless gladiatorial battles - had a Holy Grail aura to it.

On the field the Sharks wage gladiatorial battle.

In the series, Megatron and Prime were abducted by the alien Keepers and forced to fight in gladiatorial battles.

Musical pantomime was the most popular form of spectacle other than chariot races and gladiatorial battles.

She initially appears as one of the heroes held captive and forced to fight in gladiatorial battles by the new Kingpin, but she is eventually freed by her father.

Another episode entitled "Rome Alone" sees Simba being captured by Romans, and forced into gladiatorial battle with another lion called Claudius.

Resources are scarce, and supplies are divided out between cities based on the outcome of gladiatorial battles between representative fighters from each.