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roller bearing |
roller bit |
roller blade |
roller blind |
roller coaster |
roller skate
| roller skating
| roller towel
| roller-skater
| rollerblade
| rollerblader
roller skate
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Noun roller skate has 1 sense
- roller skate(n = noun.artifact) Array - a shoe with pairs of rollers fixed to the sole; Array has parts: roller
is a kind of skate
Derived form verb roller skate1
Verb roller skate has 1 sense
- roller skate(v = verb.motion) Array - travel on shoes with steel or rubber rollers attached to their soles; "In some fashionable restaurants, the waiters roller skate around" is one way to skate
Derived forms noun roller skate1, noun roller-skater1
Sample sentence:
Somebody ----s
CIDE DICTIONARY
roller skate,
- a shoe with a set of wheels attached so that the wearer can glide over a flat surface. To move on such a device is reverred to as to skate or to rollerskate. To rollerskate is a form of recreation or sport. [PJC]
- a metal frame of the size of a shoe, with a set of wheels attached, and with adjustable clamps and straps that permit a shoe to be reversibly fastened to the frame. It serves the same purpose as the roller skate having the shoe permanently attached, but is typically less expensive. [PJC]
THESAURUS
roller skate
coast, flit, flow, fly, glide, glissade, ice-skate, sail, sideslip, skate, skateboard, ski, skid, skim, sled, sleigh, slide, slip, slither, sweep, toboggan
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