roller skate

See also: rollerskate and roller-skate

English

Roller skates.

Alternative forms

• rollerskate
• roller-skate

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

Descendants

• → Japanese: ローラースケート

Translations

a boot having small wheels

• Arabic:

  Egyptian Arabic: جزمة باتيناچ m (gazmat batinaj)

• Azerbaijani: diyircək
• Bulgarian: ролери m pl (roleri), ролкови кънки f pl (rolkovi kǎnki)
• Catalan: patí de rodes (ca) m
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 輪滑冰鞋／轮滑冰鞋 (lúnhuá bīngxié)

• Dutch: rolschaats (nl)
• Esperanto: rulsketilo, rulŝuo (eo)
• Finnish: rullaluistin (fi)
• French: patin à roulettes (fr) m
• Georgian: please add this translation if you can
• German: Rollschuh (de) m
• Greek: πατίνι (el) n (patíni)
• Hindi: रोलर स्केट m (rolar skeṭ)
• Hungarian: görkorcsolya (hu)
• Icelandic: hjólaskauti m
• Indonesian: sepatu roda (id)
• Japanese: ローラースケート (ja) (rōrāsukēto)
• Korean: 롤러 스케이트 (rolleo seukeiteu)
• Luxembourgish: Rollschong m
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: rulleskøyte m or f

  Nynorsk: rulleskøyte f, rulleskeise f

• Persian: رولر اسکیت (roler-e eskeyt), اسکیت‌رولر (eskeyt-roler)
• Polish: wrotka (pl) f, rolka (pl) f, łyżworolka f
• Portuguese: patim (pt) m, roller (pt) m
• Russian: ро́лик (ru) m (rólik), ро́лики (ru) m pl (róliki); ро́ликовый конёк m (rólikovyj konjók), ро́ликовые коньки́ (ru) m pl (rólikovyje konʹkí)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Latin: koturaljka f

• Spanish: patín (es), patín de ruedas
• Swedish: rullskridsko (sv) c
• Tibetan: འཁོར་ཤུར་ལྷམ་གོག ('khor shur lham gog)
• Turkish: paten (tr)
• Volapük: luibilasket

See also

• in-line skate
• quad skate
• rollerblade
• roller shoe

 

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.
   • 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.

Translations

to skate using roller skates

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 輪滑／轮滑 (zh) (lúnhuá)

• Dutch: rolschaatsen (nl)
• Finnish: rullaluistella (fi)
• Hindi: रोलर स्केट (rolar skeṭ)
• Hungarian: görkorcsolyázik (hu)
• Japanese: ローラースケートをする (rōrāsukēto o suru)
• Portuguese: patinar (pt)
• Russian: ката́ться на ро́ликах impf (katátʹsja na rólikax)
• Volapük: luibilasketön