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单词 roller skating
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Definition of roller skating in English:

roller skating

noun
mass noun
  • The activity or sport of gliding across a hard surface on roller skates.

    Example sentencesExamples
    • Over the last few years low profile sports such as roller skating, wakeboarding, and surfing have found their way to the video game world in record numbers and have been well received.
    • We'll have costume contests and, of course, there's roller skating.
    • I once spent an entire evening with my wife at a roller skating rink and never got off the floor.
    • Are you going to go white water rafting, hiking, biking, roller skating, scuba diving?
    • He was good at cricket, rugby, roller skating, rowing, shooting, and fishing.
    • I said she had bruises, she falls a lot roller skating.
    • There was a roller skating rink and even an indoor ice-skating rink.
    • There were no clubs or poker machines and the social life evolved around dancing, roller skating and the picture theatres.
    • She passed the mall and shopping center, past the roller skating rink and the favorite teen hangout (though not at the time), and several houses before reaching her own home.
    • The best part about it was the front porch that spanned the width of the house had the smoothest concretes surface that was super duper for roller skating.
    • Again the answer came back a yes, which, of course meant I couldn't go to the roller skating party that afternoon because there would surely be a ‘couples’ skate.
    • It also had a large roller skating rink where people glided to music.
    • By a notice, all ball games, roller skating and skateboarding were prohibited.
    • If only I'd mastered the art of roller skating first, it would have been perfect.

Derivatives

  • roller-skate

  • noun ˈrəʊləskeɪtˈroʊlər ˌskeɪt
    • Each of a pair of boots or metal frames fitted to shoes with four or more small wheels, for gliding across a hard surface.

      I said while getting out of the car and walking inside watching the waiters and waitress's roller skating around.
      She also plays volleyball and used to roller-skate.
      Example sentencesExamples
      • Walking hand in hand, we passed several other people on roller skates, in bikinis and swimming trunks, with shopping bags in their hands and all.
      • I imagined the kingly roller skates I would wear.
      • On her feet were white Bobby socks and pink and white roller skates that looked like saddle shoes.
      • He came up with a four-wheel skate with two pairs of wheels side by side, and so the modern four-wheel roller skate was created.
      • They're on old-style roller skates, doing balletic disco-dancing, and this is their anthem.
      • They aren't roller skates, they're in-line skates, and I feel decidedly dodgy on them.
      • The law arrived quickly and ran down their quarry as he tried to make his getaway on one roller skate.
      • I grabbed the roller skates and put them on my feet.
      • The four wheels and the metal plate on a roller skate are much heavier than the single blade on an ice skate.
      • Expect your first time to feel akin to being strapped to a dodgy roller skate in the middle of a quarry.
      • Waiters glided, as if on invisible roller skates.
      • Colorful frilly skirts or plaid pants generally gave way to wild sandals or roller skates.
      • The softboot skates feel more like a hiking boot than a roller skate.
      • He imagined himself walking into the kitchen and tripping over roller skates.
      • I wanted a pair of self-guiding, ball-bearing roller skates.
      • In this city, you could get from A to B more quickly on a pair of roller skates!
      • They run millimetres from the ground and have all the suspension movement of a roller skate.
      • The waitresses are on roller skates, nothing but rock music has been playing all night and there's not a designer label in sight.
      • In fact, in-line skates are actually easier to skate in outdoors than quad roller skates, because in-line skates are more forgiving of cracks in the pavement.
      • I tripped over a roller skate in my driveway and fell.
  • roller skater

  • noun ˈrəʊlə ˌskeɪtə
    • A person who roller-skates.

      the by-law requires roller skaters to wear helmets when skating in public places
      Example sentencesExamples
      • I have noticed that most roller skaters do axels from a forward skating position.
      • Included in the procession were majorettes, marching bands, Scouts and Guides, roller skaters, two fire engines, and carnival courts from towns across Essex.
      • In September, work will begin on the play area, while the skate area, which will be used by skateboarders, BMX bikers and roller skaters, is expected in the early part of next year once designs have been finalised.
 
 

Definition of roller skating in US English:

roller skating

nounˈrōlər ˌskādiNG
  • The activity or sport of gliding across a hard surface on roller skates.

    Example sentencesExamples
    • There were no clubs or poker machines and the social life evolved around dancing, roller skating and the picture theatres.
    • I once spent an entire evening with my wife at a roller skating rink and never got off the floor.
    • She passed the mall and shopping center, past the roller skating rink and the favorite teen hangout (though not at the time), and several houses before reaching her own home.
    • It also had a large roller skating rink where people glided to music.
    • I said she had bruises, she falls a lot roller skating.
    • Over the last few years low profile sports such as roller skating, wakeboarding, and surfing have found their way to the video game world in record numbers and have been well received.
    • There was a roller skating rink and even an indoor ice-skating rink.
    • Again the answer came back a yes, which, of course meant I couldn't go to the roller skating party that afternoon because there would surely be a ‘couples’ skate.
    • If only I'd mastered the art of roller skating first, it would have been perfect.
    • He was good at cricket, rugby, roller skating, rowing, shooting, and fishing.
    • We'll have costume contests and, of course, there's roller skating.
    • By a notice, all ball games, roller skating and skateboarding were prohibited.
    • Are you going to go white water rafting, hiking, biking, roller skating, scuba diving?
    • The best part about it was the front porch that spanned the width of the house had the smoothest concretes surface that was super duper for roller skating.
 
 
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