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2. Inline skates - Wikipedia

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   Urban skates Hockey skates. Inline 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 skates with a two-by-two wheel arrangement similar to a car.

3. Roller skates - Wikipedia

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   Skates like these fit over shoes and were adjustable with a roller skate key. Roller skating popularity began during the late 1950s and 1960s at rock 'n' roll teen dance halls, but exploded and took off in the 1970s and 1980s due to the introduction of large rubberized polymer wheels such as Krypto-Pro, to replace metal wheels, becoming popular ...

4. Roller skating - Wikipedia

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   Unidentified woman roller skater, c. 1860–1870 Roller skates in the United States around 1905. The earliest roller skates known are from 18th-century Europe. These skates were used in theater and musical performances, possibly to simulate ice skating onstage. Early roller skating was done in a straight line because turning or curving was very ...

5. Windy City Rollers - Wikipedia

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   Windy City Rollers is a women's flat-track roller derby league located in Chicago, Illinois.Founded by Juanna Rumbel (Elizabeth Gomez) and Sister Sledgehammer (Kelly Simmons) in 2004, Windy City is the first flat-track roller derby league established in Chicago, and is a founding member of the Women's Flat Track Derby Association (WFTDA).

6. Skateboarding - Wikipedia

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   The first skateboards started with wooden boxes, or boards, with roller skate wheels attached to the bottom. Crate scooters preceded skateboards, having a wooden crate attached to the nose (front of the board), which formed rudimentary handlebars. [8] [9] [10] The boxes turned into planks, similar to the skateboard decks of today. [1]

7. Roller derby - Wikipedia

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   Roller derby is a roller skating contact sport played on an oval track by two teams of five skaters. It is played by approximately 1,250 amateur leagues [note 1] worldwide, though it is most popular in the United States.