The phrase "a set of skates" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it when referring to a collection or pair of skates, typically for ice skating or roller skating.
Example: "For my birthday, I received a set of skates that I can't wait to try out at the rink."
Alternatives: "a pair of skates" or "a collection of skates."
I can still remember how hard it is just to stay upright on a set of skates, never mind chase a puck and wield a stick with any accuracy.
Unlike ice skating, where spinning on two feet is difficult but possible on a set of skates that are designed to rotate on a central axis, you have to tilt each individual roller skate a specific way in order to spin on them.
That's because the Blackhawks did everything right in Keith's absence, Cam Cole writes in The National Post, despite having fitted Keith's actual replacement, Sheldon Brookbank, with a set of concrete skates.
Then they got to the case holding Wayne Gretzky's first pair of skates, a set of kid's skates with a small boot, a strap over the top and wide blades.
Jerry LeRoy, most remembered for a stage act in which he tap-danced in ice skates on a set of wooden stairs, took over the studio in the early 1970's when Michael, whose last name no one remembers, died.
The Little Skate BAC clone 0081H20 was isolated in a low stringency pooled homeobox screen of a set of 4.1× coverage BAC library (BAC Library RE__Ba (Little Skate)) filters from the Clemson University Genomics Institute (CUGI).
And even though I've studied dance much of my life, work out at a gym and do yoga regularly, figure skating called on a set of muscles that had been hibernating.
If you do a lot of skating in a lot of different environments, consider getting two sets of wheels and interchanging them when necessary.
When P.K. was four, and attending junior kindergarten in the afternoon, Karl set a goal of skating with his son every day throughout the winter.
A full set of helmet, kneepads and skates runs into hundreds of dollars, and the sudden devaluation of the Egyptian pound last year effectively doubled the price.
He began skating at age four after family friends gave him a pair of skates they no longer wanted.
