Roller skating is a popular pastime and can be great exercise. It also helps children develop skills of balance and coordination. The first recorded use of skates took place more than 200 years ago in ...

All products and listings featured on Condé Nast Traveler are independently selected by our editors. However, we may receive compensation from retailers and/or from purchases of products through these ...

When Michelle Steilen was born, roller skating was something everyone did on Friday nights. As she grew up, roller skating faded and was replaced by roller derby. She created the Los Angeles-based ...

Many of the roller skaters you see on TikTok prefer fluidly cruising down the street to the tune of popular songs. Mary Smith, on the other hand, prefers taking a slightly more adrenaline-pumping ...

One weekend a month, starting at 5pm, the Point Fort dance floor is transformed into a gigantic dancefloor on wheels during ...

Many people are just starting to roller skate during the pandemic because of social media, but L.A. has a long, rich history and culture of skaters. (Micah Fluellen / Los Angeles Times) Some people ...

If there was ever a scene to put to rest doubt that roller skating is back, big time, it would be here on the open beachfront blacktop of Newport Elementary School on the Balboa Peninsula, where ...

Invented in the 1700s, roller skates became a huge fad after an 1863 innovation made them easier to control. It sparked the first (of many) skating crazes. In the 1880s as the roller-skating craze ...

At the beginning of the pandemic, Mykaela took her last bit of cash and splurged on some roller skates. “I’d go to roller rinks as a kid, but I never had my own pair,” says the 20-year-old NYC ...

Thanks to COVID-19 and its ensuing social distancing, we’ve tried almost every hobby you can think of in the past few years. Crafting? Been there. Baking? We've done it. There's one popular pastime we ...