roller skate

Questions about roller skate

What does roller skate mean?

roller skate means "a shoe with pairs of rollers fixed to the sole". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

Is roller skate a common word?

roller skate is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.