Road skating

The individual members of a pack use comparatively less energy than the lone skater traveling at the same speed.

Runners often switch to road skating due to injuries associated with the impact of running.

Such group skates can be formal affairs, with prespecified routes, marshals and, at times, police escorts or ad hoc gatherings of like minded individuals.

LondonSkate[5] runs free events on Wednesday evenings; and a smaller scene can be found in Nottingham.

Normally, the only requirement is that each individual skater can keep pace with the rest of the group and can turn and stop safely.

Every Wednesday from April to October, weather permitting, organizers show up wearing yellow-green vests at the south-side steps of Union Square around 7:45pm.

At 8pm an organizer gives a brief safety speech and introduces the route planner of the week, the leader of the day, and the sweeper.

on Carfree Day, 22 September – one of the 20–25 km long tours runs for a small part on an urban highway.

FNS run there weekly, if streets are dry, since 1999 in Vienna as a "political demonstration" by activists of the Green Party, starting at 21:00 partially in dark night and since 2000 in Graz as a sporting event, that has to pay fees to the city and accompanying police, starting at 19:30, reaching dawn only in late August.

[10][11] A generic name for an event which typically consists of a group of individuals participating in road skating during a night when the moon is in its full phase.