Inline skates

Inline skates are boots with wheels arranged in a single line from front to back, allowing one to move in an ice skate-like fashion. Inline skates are a type of roller skate. Inline skates became prominent in the late 1980s with the rise of Rollerblade, and peaked in the late 1990s.

The registered trademark Rollerblade has since become a generic trademark: "rollerblading" is now a verb for skating with inline skates, or "rollerblades.

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