From Le Journal Amusant, 1900.

Aurora skates with polar bears at the North Pole.  From Harper's Young People, 1887.

Here's a precursor to the fake news phenomenon.  "The next thing the daily papers will have will be the sea-serpent on the ice, skating for dear life."  From Judge's Library, 1891.

Death and the Peace Angel are ice-skating buddies.  From Jugend, 1900.

The frozen waters of incompetency.  From Ambition magazine, 1911.

An ice-skating horse from Zozimus, 1871.

By F. Valloton.  From Jugend, 1896.

Here are some roller-skaters from The Sketch, 1909.

The caption reads, "The Horse: 'These motors are getting the best of us all round.'"  Date uncertain.

You've heard the idiom about being under someone's thumb, but here's a woman whose life is under an ice skater's cap.  The caption reads, "He took of his cap and that was how the story of her life began."  From English Illustrated, 1895.

The "Pedespeed," from English Mechanic, 1870.

The roller skating craze is devoured by the moon.  From 1908.

"On frail Ice, the whirring Skate / Becomes an Instrument of Fate."  Colored aquatint by Thomas Rowlandson, 1816.

Cheshire cheese goes ice skating.  From Judy, Or The London Serio-Comic Journal, 1887.

"Belle à la mécanique. (A rink wrinkle)."  From Punch, or the London Charivari.

Jonathan writes, "Note the Moebiuslike paradox of an image from the era that the steampunk phenomenon retroactively took inspiration from precursing steampunk itself."

"You make me tired!" circa 1890.

Here's a precursor to The Flintstones.  "Roller skating in the Stone Age," from the early 1900s.