Editing Inline skates (section)

{{Short description|Boots with wheels arranged in a single line}}

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[[File:Roces Impala 2023 Lightspeed Fairy Floss inline skates w 70mm 84A wheels-IMG 6848-bg-FRD.png|thumb|right|180px|Recreational skates]]
[[File:Powerslide Tau Urban Skates-110mm wheels-IMG 5286-BG Removed-FRD.png|thumb|right|Urban 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 skates|roller skate]], but most people associate the term roller skates with quad skates, another type of roller skate with a two-by-two wheel arrangement similar to a car. Quad skates were popularized in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Inline skates became prominent in the late 1980s with the rise of [[Rollerblade|Rollerblade, Inc.]], and peaked in the late 1990s. The registered [[trademark]] ''Rollerblade'' has since become a [[generic trademark]] due to its popularity.<ref>{{cite web
| title = Inventor of the Week Archive: Scott & Brennan Olson (spelling corrected per rowbike.com -ed.)
| publisher = MIT School of Engineering
| date = August 1997
| url = http://web.mit.edu/invent/iow/Inline.html
| archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20030302044906/http://web.mit.edu/invent/iow/Inline.html
| url-status = dead
| archive-date = 2003-03-02
| access-date = 2007-02-25
}}</ref> To this day, "rollerblades" continues to be used in everyday language to refer to inline skates.

In the 21st century, inline skates come in many varieties, suitable for different types of [[inline skating]] activities and sports such as recreational skating, [[road skating|urban skating]], [[inline hockey|roller hockey]], [[street hockey]], [[Inline speed skating|speed skating]], [[Freestyle slalom skating|slalom skating]], [[Aggressive inline skating|aggressive skating]], [[vert skating]], and [[Artistic roller skating|artistic inline skating]]. Inline skaters can be found at traditional [[roller rinks]], street hockey rinks, [[skateparks]], and on urban streets. In cities around the world, skaters organize urban group skates. Paris Friday Night Fever Skate (Randonnée du Vendredi Soir) is renowned for its large crowd size, as well as its iconic +10 mile urban routes.<ref>{{cite web
|url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/2095023.stm
|title=The night of a thousand wheels
|website=BBC News
|date=20 July 2002
|url-status=live
|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080624192700/http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/2095023.stm
|archive-date=2008-06-24
}}</ref><ref>{{cite web
|url=http://www.pari-roller.com/
|title=Pari Roller – La Friday Night Fever !
|url-status=live
|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080130161111/http://www.pari-roller.com/
|archive-date=30 January 2008
}}</ref> Wednesday Night Skate NYC is its equivalent in New York City, also run by volunteers, albeit smaller in size.<ref>{{cite web
|url=http://www.skatecity.com/nyc/clubs/group.html
|title=Clubs and Leagues: Group Skates
|website=New York City Inline Skating Guide
|url-status=live
|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221203051227/http://www.skatecity.com/nyc/clubs/group.html
|archive-date=2022-12-03
}}</ref><ref>{{cite web
|url=https://www.empireskate.org/skate/
|title=NYC Skating Info Links
|website=Empire Skate Club of New York
|url-status=live
|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220709191604/https://www.empireskate.org/skate/
|archive-date=2022-07-09
}}</ref>