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Don't remember.... :roll: What does the Google think about it?

All right, I give up. But it is something new. Then I was young, I use to skate a lot. We never use the word "лезвие" about skates. Only in the expression: "They fell down and he accidentally cut her...

Well, theoretically you're right but tell me then how you'll call the whole thing? And show me a Russian shop where "blades" are called "коньки" and "skates" are not called "коньки".

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No, it's not. Check with the Russian dictionary. "Коньки - металлические лезвия, прикрепляемые к ботинкам".

Congratulation! :D It's "коньки". Basically, in Russian we call blades only - коньки, "the skates". Аnd the skate boots - are "the boots", ботинки. "To screw the blades into the boots" -...

Is "blade" a whole metal part of a skate? Or only a bottom part? So, you are, basically, changing everything except the boots?