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roller skate

roller skate noun: a boot having small wheels or casters attached to its sole; used for roller skating.

roller skate: a boot having small wheels or casters attached to its sole; used for roller skating
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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.
    Synonyms:
    roller boot

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.
    • 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 need1971, Melanie, “Brand New Key”
    • 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.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

roller skate meaning in Hindi, Tamil, Indonesian and Persian

roller skate in Hindi

a boot having small wheels
रोलर स्केट rolar skeṭ
to skate using roller skates
रोलर स्केट rolar skeṭ

roller skate in Tamil

உருளிச்சறுக்கியில் செல், உருளிச்சறுக்கி

roller skate in Indonesian

a boot having small wheels
sepatu roda

roller skate in Persian

a boot having small wheels
رولر اسکیت roler-e eskeyt, اسکیترولر eskeyt-roler

Synonyms of roller skate

Forms of roller skate

Noun
pluralroller skates
alternative formrollerskate
alternative formroller-skate
Verb
third-person singular presentroller skates
present participleroller skating
past participleroller skated
pastroller skated

Questions about roller skate

What does roller skate mean?
Roller skate means a boot having small wheels or casters attached to its sole; used for roller skating.
What is roller skate in Hindi?
Roller skate in Hindi is रोलर स्केट (rolar skeṭ). See Roller skate meaning in Hindi.
What part of speech is roller skate?
Roller skate can be a noun or a verb.
What is the plural of roller skate?
The plural of roller skate is roller skates.

Words near roller skate in the dictionary

  1. roller shades
  2. roller shoe
  3. roller shoes
  4. roller shutter
  5. roller shutters
  6. roller skate
  7. roller skates
  8. roller skating
  9. roller sled hockey
  10. roller sledge hockey
  11. roller sport

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Adapted from Wiktionary: roller skate (page history and authors); roller skate (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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