What do you call shoes that you wear while working out?
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I haven't played tennis is years and even I know you need a flat, thin sole for the shoes you play tennis in (so you can stop abruptly and turn without falling off them. The serious runners I know have a pair of shoes that they only use for running. You can wear either of them as casual wear, but different sports call for different shoes. |
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Me -sneakers NYC
DH - tennis shoes DC |
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Running shoes, unless they are tennis shoes, in which case I call them tennis shoes.
Montgomery County |
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Gym shoes. Or if I’m running, running shoes.
Grew up on the west coast. |
Anonymous
Uh, sneakah in Boston. I went to college in Boston, & my roommate was a local. Once he was looking for a sock of his & I said “I think it’s in your shoe (which was a sneaker).” He looked & said “It’s not in my shoe—it’s in my sneakah.” There ensued a long discussion, the crux of which was that Boston-area people do not think of sneakers as being a subset of “shoes”; they consider them to be a completely different type of entity altogether, which even for Boston seemed really weird. Anybody else ever encounter this? |
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| Sneakers. Rhode Island and Massachusetts. |
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Sneakers (from PA)
Cleats if referring to my cycling shoes that I could not wear for anything else. |
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| Gym Shoes (EU country) |
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| Tennis shoes. SouthWest part of US |
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| I grew up saying "tennis shoes" I'm NC but switched to sneakers as an adult because that's what people around me said. |
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+1 Tenn-ah shoes. Indiana |
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Tiafoe has most recently been seen sporting Nike Air Zoom GP Turbo tennis shoes. Fritz makes use of the various versions of the Nike Air Zoom Vapor Pro as his footwear for the 2023 season. Yet another Nike athlete, Sinner currently uses the Nike Court Air Zoom Zero shoe. In a testament to their range, Nike supply Rublev with his competition shoe, the Nike Vapor Pro 2. The world No 1 currently wears the Nike Air Zoom Vapor Pro. https://www.tennis365.com/tennis-news/what-shoes-do-the-atps-top-ten-players-play-in So I ask my question again, do people actually differentiate between "tennis shoes" and "sneakers" when tennis shoes are just literally nikes? |
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| Tennis shoes - Michigan |
Anonymous
+1 Been in DC 15 years and now call them “sneakers.” I’m also 50 years old, so… |
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| tennis shoes - montgomery county |