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2. Inline skates - Wikipedia

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   Urban skates Hockey skates. Inline roller skates are boots with wheels arranged in a single line from front to back, allowing a skater to roll along on these wheels. Inline skates are technically a type of roller skate, but most people associate the term roller skates with quad skates, another type of roller skate with a two-by-two wheel arrangement similar to a car.

3. Roller skates - Wikipedia

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   The first roller skate was an inline skate design, effectively an ice skate with a line of wheels replacing the blade. In modern usage, the term typically refers to skates with two pairs of wheels on shared axles like those of skateboards (early versions of which were made using roller skate parts). Skates with this configuration are also known ...

4. Frank Nasworthy - Wikipedia

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   The factory had experimented with a polyurethane roller skate wheel that was sold to Roller Sports Inc., which supplied wheels for rental skates at roller rinks. The rationale was that a softer wheel with improved grip would help novice roller skaters, but the wheel was largely rejected by roller skaters who favored the hard steel wheels that ...

5. Roller skating - Wikipedia

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   1760: First recorded skate invention, by John Joseph Merlin, who created a primitive inline skate with small metal wheels. 1818: Roller skates appeared on the ballet stage in Berlin. [10] 1819: First patented roller skate design, in France by M. Petitbled. These early skates were similar to today's inline skates, but they were not very ...

6. Heelys - Wikipedia

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   A pair of Heelys. Heelys (formerly known as Heeling Sports Limited) is an American brand of roller shoe (marketed by Heelys, Inc.) that have one or more removable wheels embedded in each sole, similar to inline skates, allowing the wearer to walk, run, or, by shifting their weight to their heels, roll.

7. Inline skating - Wikipedia

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   Inline skates typically have two to five polyurethane wheels depending on the style of practice, arranged in a single line by a metal or plastic frame on the underside of a boot. The in-line design allows for greater speed and maneuverability than traditional (or "quad") roller skates. Following this basic design principle, inline skates can be ...