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"patines" in English

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patines{masculine plural}
skates{pl}
tiene la monomanía de los patines
he's totally obsessed with his skates
to aquaplane {v.i.} [idiom] (car)
to skid {v.i.} (car, plane, wheels)
to slew {v.i.} (skid)
to slip[slipped · slipped] {v.i.} (slide, shift position)
Por supuesto, comprendemos que la Presidencia implique balancear, buscar un equilibrio y no patinar.
Of course, we realize that the presidency is also keen to keep its balance and not to slip.
to slue {v.i.} [Amer.] (skid)
to hook[hooked · hooked] {v.i.} [Amer.] [slg.] (be prostitute)
patinar[patinando · patinado] {intransitive verb}
No me cabe duda de que su liderazgo acabará haciéndonos patinar a todos sobre una fina capa de hielo.
I have no doubt your leadership will have us all skating on very thin ice.
patinar sobre ruedas
to roller-skate
Como ha dicho uno de nuestros expertos, los Estados Unidos están patinando sobre una capa de hielo muy fina.
As one of our experts said, the United States is skating on very thin ice.
patinar sobre hielo
to ice skate
patinar sobre ruedas
to roller-skate
Es que hacía mucho que el Japón patinaba.
But Japan had been sliding for some time.

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tiene la monomanía de los patines
he's totally obsessed with his skates
El pasado verano, al equipo nacional catalán de hockey sobre patines se le permitió participar en el Campeonato del Mundo «B», en Macau.
Last summer the Catalan national roller hockey team was allowed to participate in the ‘B’ World Championship in Macau.
tiene la monomanía de los patines
all he thinks about is skating
El pasado verano, al equipo nacional catalán de hockey sobre patines se le permitió participar en el Campeonato del Mundo« B», en Macau.
I regret the scenes we have seen recently in Spain, Italy and elsewhere, which show racism in football on the increase again.
la moda de los patines
the rollerskating craze
Evidentemente, no me refiero a los puertos para patines acuáticos, sino a puertos con un volumen de tráfico anual superior al millón de toneladas de mercancías.
Mind you, I am not talking here about ports for pedalos, I am talking about ports with an annual volume in excess of 1 million tonnes of freight.