Found 2 items, similar to roller skate.
English → English (WordNet) Definition: roller skate roller skate n : a shoe with pairs of rollers fixed to the sole roller skate v : travel on shoes with steel or rubber rollers attached to their soles; “In some fashionable restaurants, the waiters roller skate around”
English → English (gcide) Definition: Roller skate Skate \Skate\ (sk[=a]t), n. [D. schaats. Cf. Scatches.] A metallic runner with a frame shaped to fit the sole of a shoe, -- made to be fastened under the foot, and used for moving rapidly on ice. [1913 Webster] Batavia rushes forth; and as they sweep, On sounding skates, a thousand different ways, In circling poise, swift as the winds, along, The then gay land is maddened all to joy. --Thomson. [1913 Webster] Roller skate. See under Roller. [1913 Webster] Roller \Roll"er\, n. 1. One who, or that which, rolls; especially, a cylinder, sometimes grooved, of wood, stone, metal, etc., used in husbandry and the arts. [1913 Webster] 2. A bandage; a fillet; properly, a long and broad bandage used in surgery. [1913 Webster] 3. (Naut.) One of series of long, heavy waves which roll in upon a coast, sometimes in calm weather. [1913 Webster] 4. A long, belt-formed towel, to be suspended on a rolling cylinder; -- called also roller towel. [1913 Webster] 5. (Print.) A cylinder coated with a composition made principally of glue and molassess, with which forms of type are inked previously to taking an impression from them. --W. Savage. [1913 Webster] 6. A long cylinder on which something is rolled up; as, the roller of a map. [1913 Webster] 7. A small wheel, as of a caster, a roller skate, etc. [1913 Webster] 8. (Zo["o]l.) ANy insect whose larva rolls up leaves; a leaf roller. see Tortrix. [1913 Webster] 9. [CF. F. rollier.] (Zo["o]l.) Any one of numerous species of Old World picarian birds of the family Coraciad[ae]. The name alludes to their habit of suddenly turning over or “tumbling” in flight. [1913 Webster] Note: Many of the species are brilliantly colored. The common European species (Coracias garrula) has the head, neck, and under parts light blue varied with green, the scapulars chestnut brown, and the tail blue, green, and black. The broad-billed rollers of India and Africa belong to the genus Eurystomus, as the oriental roller (Eurystomus orientalis), and the Australian roller, or dollar bird (Eurystomus Pacificus). The latter is dark brown on the head and neck, sea green on the back, and bright blue on the throat, base of the tail, and parts of the wings. It has a silvery-white spot on the middle of each wing. The lilac-breasted roller of Africa is Corcia caudata caudata, a brightly colored bird of the family Corciidae having malachite green, blue, purple-lilac, brown and sea-green feathers from head to tail; it is a popular sight with tourists in Africa. [1913 Webster +PJC] 10. (Zo["o]l.) Any species of small ground snakes of the family Tortricid[ae]. [1913 Webster] Ground roller (Zo["o]l.), any one of several species of Madagascar rollers belonging to Atelornis and allied genera. They are nocturnal birds, and feed on the ground. Roller bolt, the bar in a carriage to which the traces are attached; a whiffletree. [Eng.] Roller gin, a cotton gin inn which rolls are used for separating the seeds from the fiber. Roller mill. See under Mill. Roller skate, a skate which has small wheels in the place of the metallic runner; -- designed for use in skating upon a smooth, hard surface, other than ice. [1913 Webster] Roller skate \Roll"er skate\ 1. 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] 2. 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]