roller skates
- plural of roller skate.
- present tense form of roller-skate (3rd person singular).
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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
At the O2, that pain seemed a distant memory, as he careened around the U-shaped stage on roller skates, pulling off a flawless moonwalk, and even freeze-framing in a handstand.
From BBC ● Mar. 30, 2025
Domi and I pushed their stroller down the Venice Beach Boardwalk, stopping to listen to Harry Perry and watch a man on roller skates juggling while wearing a Speedo.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 31, 2025
Kayla Drake stands in a circle for a meet and greet while wearing her roller skates.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 12, 2024
John took extra long coming back, and I could hear him getting his roller skates out of the closet in the back room where all the pigs were.
From "The Pigman" by Paul Zindel
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
