Gladiators s used all a lot of weapons that they used such as a bow,spears, and swords.
There were many different kinds of gladiators such as Bestraii, andabutae, mirmillones, retarii, hoplomachi, equite, dimuchaeus, thraex, venutors, essedurios, provocutores.
Gladiators were used for games in the collisiam.