roller skates
- plural of roller skate.
- present tense form of roller-skate (3rd person singular).
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Under the California Vehicle Code, it is illegal for anyone on an e-bike, bicycle, motorcycle or roller skates to attach themselves to another vehicle on a road.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 18, 2026
Bikes, tricycles, roller skates and sidewalk games during the summer months were the norm.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 31, 2026
The girls see the appeal in some of the toys on display, with Bella-May particularly taken with a pair of roller skates.
From BBC ● May 24, 2026
Goddesses on roller skates glide in buttery figure eights across the glass-fiber-reinforced concrete.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 14, 2026
Lill, who was saving for a pair of roller skates and wanted the money, kept insisting she could do it.
From "Cheaper by the Dozen" by Frank B. Gilbreth Jr. and Ernestine Gilbreth Carey
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
The wheels were basic - taken from roller-skates and attached to the board - but Wang quickly became an enthusiast.
From BBC ● Apr. 18, 2016
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
