At the time of data collection, skaters are a visible subgroup of adolescents as a whole and are considered particularly style-conscious.
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Mack knows that the judge has an unacknowledged bias against roller skaters and so will (baselessly) rule that roller skates are vehicles.
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It was like askaterwho goes faster and faster to enable him to keep upright.
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But on this occasion not even the clumsiest of dancers or the worst of skaters could come to grief.
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There is no record of a womanskatermanaging a quadruple jump of that kind.
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Every week, people come from the rest of the world to take part in competitive games—ice hockey teams, ice skaters and bowling teams.
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I am afraid it is not going to make very much difference to roller skaters.
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I feel rather like a badskateron thin ice.
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One of the main threats to them, apart from the skaters, is the messengers on bicycles for their business travelling at speeds of up to 30 miles an hour?
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Does he further agree that if the accountants were a team of ice skaters they would probably get more marks for artistic interpretation than for technical merit?
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Skaters competed in the disciplines of men's singles, ladies' singes, pair skating, and ice dancing.
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Skaters competed in the disciplines of men's singles and ladies singles.
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Skaters competed in the disciplines of men's singles, ladies' singles, pair skating, and ice dancing.
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Skaters competed in the disciplines of ladies' singles, men's singles, and pair skating.
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