Words similar to skates

Example sentences for: skates

How can you use “skates” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

My fingers glide across the soft paper like skates on a pond.
In-line skates have become very popular for touring the town and can also be rented (see page 103).
Yes, I finished the marathon, but I did it by putting on roller skates and grabbing the suspenders of those who knew what they were doing.
Above the waist, we might see an asymmetrical patch of salmon pink and another of black making one breast look heavy and the other one look absent; or we can see the simple black-velvet scoop-neck top above the fluttering yellow silk skirt worn by Oksana Kazakova, the two colors perfectly balanced by the two flashing white skates below.
This scene often involuntarily flitted across my mind during the past winter, when I spent a lot of time watching people glide across expanses of ice on skates.