In this event, a contender and Gladiator would race up a thin rotating pole, the first to the top being the winner.

He was chipping away at the blacktop to make a hole large enough to fit a thin pole.

A thin pole jutted from the sand ahead of them.

Nobody knows either if such thin poles would support the weight.

The walls of the building were made of thin poles tied together with vines.

At the beaches or in the harbor, where the water is less volatile, a thinner pole is fine.

And a little way off that thin pole with a tin can on the top of it watching its work.

Each is precariously impaled on the thin pole of a metal sheet music stand.

On their backs were slung haversacks and short thin poles.

The long, thin pole came away from its braces.