roller skate

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Noun

roller skate (plural roller skates)

  1. A boot having small wheels or casters attached to its sole; used for roller skating.

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Descendants

  • Dutch: rolschaats
  • Japanese: ローラースケート (rōrāsukēto)
  • Korean: 롤러 스케이트 (rolleo seukeiteu)

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Verb

roller skate (third-person singular simple present roller skates, present participle roller skating, simple past and past participle roller skated)

  1. To skate using roller skates.
    • 1971, Melanie, “Brand New Key”:
      I rode my bicycle past your window last night / I roller skated to your door at daylight / It almost seems like you're avoiding me / I'm okay alone, but you got somethin' I need
    • 1982 March 18, Eric J. Cassel[l], “The Nature of Suffering and the Goals of Medicine”, in The New England Journal of Medicine, volume 306, number 11, →DOI, page 642:
      A fragrance drifts by, and a memory is evoked. My feet have not forgotten how to roller-skate, and my hands remember skills that I was hardly aware I had learned.

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