Roller blades

[lblanco]

Hi Everyone,
I am a first time forum user.
I work as a translator at a school district, and I need to translate "roller blades". What is the appropriate term? Is it the same as patines?

Thank you,

lblanco

[Tomisimo]

Hi and welcome.

You can just use patines for skates, roller skates and roller blades. If you need to be more specific, you can use

patines (de cuatro ruedas) - roller skates
patines en línea - roller blades

I've even seen:

patines "roller blade" - roller blades.

Does anyone have any better way of saying roller blades?

I hope that helps you. In the future, try to use the vocabulary section (http://forums.tomisimo.org/forumdisplay.php?f=18) for vocabulary questions.

Once again, welcome :D

[Alfonso]

I agree with David. In Spain, for those rollers with four wheels in line, we say patines en línea. I don't know any other way of saying this, but patines en línea is perfect.

[sosia]

Agree with both:
patines (roller skates)
patines en línea (roller blades)

saludos :D

[Tomisimo]

Thanks for the confirmation guys :)

[lblanco]

Thank you for your responses! :)

[Tomisimo]

Cabe agregar que "roller blades" is a registered trademark and the correct term in English is "inline skates".

[Alfonso]

As a deformation from the English term in-line skates, you can hear in Spain patines on line (truth), despite they're not supposed to be on the Internet.