Proper noun
Skates
A surname.
Talent without discipline is like an octopus on roller skates. There's plenty of movement, but you never know if it's going to be forward, backwards, or sideways. H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
They're a typical Hollywood audience. All the kids are on drugs and all the adults are on roller skates. Eric Idle
He skates saucily over great tracts of confessed ignorance. John Updike
He really is terribly heavy going. Like running up hill in roller skates. Alan Ayckbourn
I'd love to see a 6-foot-2-tall, skinny man doing a halfpipe on figure skates. Johnny Weir
When it comes down to competition, its not always about the best skater, its about who skates the best in that competition. Gracie Gold