Collins COBUILD Advanced Learner's English Dictionary - roller-skate

(roller-skates, roller-skating, roller-skated) 1. Roller-skates are shoes with four small wheels on the bottom. A boy of about ten came up on roller-skates. N-COUNT: usu pl 2. If you roller-skate, you move over a flat surface wearing roller-skates. On the day of the accident, my son Gary was roller-skating outside our house. VERB: V • roller-skating The craze for roller skating spread throughout the U.S. N-UNCOUNT