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  2. Roller skating - Wikipedia

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    Roller skating is the act of travelling on surfaces with roller skates. It is a recreational activity, a sport, and a form of transportation. Roller rinks and skate parks are built for roller skating, though it also takes place on streets, sidewalks, and bike paths. Roller skating originated in the performing arts in the 18th century.

  3. USA Roller Sports - Wikipedia

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    USA Roller Sports (USARS), formerly the United States Amateur Confederation of Roller Skating, is the national governing body of competitive roller sports (inline skating and roller skating) in the United States. It is recognized by the International Roller Sports Federation (FIRS) and the United States Olympic Committee.

  4. Inline skates - Wikipedia

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    Recreational skates are equipped with heel brakes. These allow beginners to learn to stop rolling, with a simple pivot of a foot on its heel. Heel brakes can usually be removed once a skater learns to stop rolling without them, using a skating move such as the T-stop. [107]: 25–26, 44–45, 52–57 [78]: 87–96

  5. Roller sports - Wikipedia

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    On the programme for the 2022 World Games there were four roller sports disciplines: Artistic, Inline hockey, Speed Skating Road and Speed Skating track. Roller sports is the only sport on the World Games programme represented in three clusters. Speed Skating belongs to "Trend Sports", Artistic to "Artistic Sports" and Inline Hockey to "Ball ...

  6. Roller rink - Wikipedia

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    A roller rink is a hard surface usually consisting of hardwood or concrete, [1] used for roller skating or inline skating. This includes roller hockey, speed skating, roller derby, and individual recreational skating. Roller rinks can be located in an indoor or outdoor facility. Most skating center facilities range anywhere from under 14,000 ...

  7. Artistic roller skating - Wikipedia

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    Though both ice and roller skaters perform the Euler jump (also called a "half-loop" or "Thorén"), it is more common in roller skating programs, as lengthy multi-jump combinations are emphasized in roller skating judging. The Euler is a useful connecting jump in such sequences; for example, a five-jump combination might be Axel, loop, double ...

  8. Aggressive inline skating - Wikipedia

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    The Roller Freestyle Skating World Championships has been included in the World Skate Games since 2017, organized by World Skate, the official organization on roller sports recognized by the IOC [22] The Montreal Cup (Montreal, Canada), [ 23 ] the largest skating event in Canada, including an aggressive inline skate competition, organized by ...

  9. Inline hockey - Wikipedia

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    In the United States, the USA Roller Sports (USARS) predecessor organization was the Roller Skating Rink Operators Association (RSROA). In 1940, the RSROA published a set of roller hockey rules drawn from a booklet by the National Hockey League (NHL) which was designed to grow interest in playing hockey on roller skates.