roller skate

a device having clamps and straps for fastening to a boot or shoe and four small wheels that enable the wearer to glide swiftly over a floor or other surface

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Posh is in talks with Andrew Lloyd Webber to slip into her roller-skates and star in a film version of Starlight Express.

The Diary: Posh's new roller; SHE'LL SKATE IT IN STARLIGHT EXPRESS

Passersby know the place by the big brown sign out front depicting a roller-skate shoe; the building's brick exterior is otherwise rather plain.

Letting the good times roll

Now, researchers at Carnegie-Mellon University in Pittsburgh have designed and built a kind of Manute Bol of robots--a tall, slender machine poised precariously on a roller-skate base.

Putting on a robotic balancing act

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