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2. 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 ...

3. Roller skates - Wikipedia

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   A pair of roller skates. Roller skates are shoes or bindings that fit onto shoes that are worn to enable the wearer to roll along on wheels. The first roller skate was an inline skate design, effectively an ice skate with wheels replacing the blade. Later the "quad skate" style became more popular, consisting of four wheels arranged in the same ...

4. Kick scooter - Wikipedia

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   The construction was all wood, with 3–4 inch (75–100 mm) wheels containing steel ball bearings. An additional advantage of this construction was a loud noise, like from a "real" vehicle. An alternative construction consists of one steel clamp on a roller skate divided into front and rear parts and attached to a wood beam.

5. Artistic roller skating - Wikipedia

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   Artistic roller skating is a competitive sport similar to figure skating but where competitors wear roller skates instead of ice skates. Within artistic roller skating, there are several disciplines: [1] Figures: the individual follows the figure circle line on a specific edge.

6. Powell Peralta - Wikipedia

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   Skateboarding, quad roller skates: Predecessor: Powell Corporation (2005) [1] Founded: 1978; 46 years ago () Founder: George Powell and Stacy Peralta: Successor: Powell Corporation (1991) Products: Skateboard decks, skateboard wheels, quad roller skate wheels, bearings and accessories: Website: powell-peralta.com

7. Artistic Skating World Championships - Wikipedia

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   The Artistic Skating World Championships [1] ('Worlds') is an annual artistic roller skating competition sanctioned by World Skate (previously the International Roller Sports Federation; FIRS) in which elite figure skaters compete for the title of World Champion.