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roller skates

  • plural
    of roller skate.
    roller skate
    noun
    a form of skate with four wheels or rollers instead of a runner, for use on a sidewalk or other surface offering traction.
roller-skates
  • present tense form
    of roller-skate (3rd person singular).
    roller skate
    noun
    a form of skate with four wheels or rollers instead of a runner, for use on a sidewalk or other surface offering traction.

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That mellow approach made her such an outlier in the vicious world of international figure skating that she might as well have showed up with roller skates.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 19, 2026

Some of her favourite moments include Beaker losing his eyeballs in a science experiment and Gonzo wearing flaming roller skates - to give a flavour of the chaos.

From BBC ● Feb. 4, 2026

Like a skateboard built out of roller skates, “Vivien’s Wild Ride” is a collection of parts fashioned into something not quite streamlined, but moving.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 22, 2026

Videos and photos posted by people who attended showed servers on roller skates and the humanoid robot dubbed Optimus scooping popcorn.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 21, 2025

There were a few fine prizes; roller skates, a catcher’s mitt, a doll with real hair and so on.

From "A Tree Grows in Brooklyn" by Betty Smith

Sara said she had fallen over on some roller-skates, but her account seemed inconsistent.

From BBC ● Dec. 11, 2024

The highly anticipated film roller-skates into theaters July 21.

From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 25, 2023

Mr. Rockman travels on roller-skates — an exhilarating if terrifying experience when plunging down the mountains outside Jerusalem toward the coastal plain outside Tel Aviv.

From New York Times ● Oct. 5, 2022

Todd Phillips trains the camera on the movie screen as the Little Tramp roller-skates closer and closer to a steep drop.

From Slate ● Jan. 13, 2020

He was a very good skater and all, but I couldn't enjoy it much because I kept picturing him practicing to be a guy that roller-skates on the stage.

From "The Catcher in the Rye" by J. D. Salinger

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