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If you mean the smoother tires that are more specifically geared for road use, yes. Just be sure that the sizes are appropriate and that you re-fit the brakes for the new tires.
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Easily. There are narrower tires that fit the normal rims, and then there are narrower rims which (of course) allow narrower tires. Personally, I never used them though. I rode on MANY varieties of terrain so I needed the width off-road but the low rolling resistance of a skinnier tire. Well, if you look around, you can find a nice meaty tire with a smooth, continuous strip of rubber down the middle that rolls like a road bike tire on pavement and yet still have the width and side threads to get you through the mud and muck.
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Yes. There's actually a style of bike called cyclecross (cyclocross) where you have a bike that looks like a road bike but has knobby tires, different gear ratios, and (sometimes) different bars. The frames are also different, but the differences are subtle.
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I've tried that, with a road bike that is completely dilapidated except for the rear wheel, and a mountain bike with a severely bent rear wheel, but the rest of it is OK. I put the road bike's wheel on the mountain bike, and it worked OK except for the brake, which is positioned to work on 26" wheels. The road bike has 27" wheels, so the brake ended up hitting the spokes when applied. Also there is very little clearance between the wheel and the frame. The bike looked rather odd, something that nobody would want to steal unless desperate, as it would be easy to identify.
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Many sizes of tyre can be fitted, but for lowering rolling resistance it is more important to choose a low profile tread than thinner width. You can get almost slick tyres for commuting on roads.
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