Tennis Shoes or Sneakers?

[Blue in a Red State]

Poll question: Tennis Shoes or Sneakers?

What do you call 'em?


Alyssa, my Balinese princess from the shelter

[Placebo]

1. Gym Shoes

"sneakers" and "tennis shoes" are so...1950s :)

[ProfessorGAC]

14. That's What I've Called Them Since The 60's

The Professor

[KitchenWitch]

2. Tennies

[uppityperson]

3. Tennies, and when people look @ me weird, sneakers

[KitchenWitch]

6. lol

you get weird looks too?

[uppityperson]

15. Was asked by 1 person "do you play tennis in them?"

then told I should call them walking shoes if that was all I did. Buncha elistist snob behavior. I told him I was old, give me a break as I rolled my eyes.

[MrSlayer]

4. Sneakers.

You throw your sneakers over the power lines.

[Ediacara]

5. I just call them "shoes"

[Swamp Rat]

7. Teneshooz

:)

[leftofthedial]

8. All Stars

Converse All Stars

Chuck Taylors

[miss_kitty]

9. trainers or plimsoles!

:7

[ghostsofgiants]

10. Just plain old shoes.

[Sympleesmshn]

11. Depends on the use...

both of the shoes and the word in the sentence

[yvr girl]

12. Runners (in a non-specific way)

It's a Canadian thing.

[u4ic]

16. That's what I've always known them as too n/t

[Magrittes Pipe]

13. Well, are they for playing tennis, or for breaking into people's houses?

It makes a difference, you know. Name follows function.

[khashka]

17. Tennis shoes, trainers, plimsoles

I grew up in the UK. It affected my languge as well as my spelling.

Khash.

(Hey! My girl Stevie is Balinese and I got her from a shelter, too! They're great cats!)

[Spider Jerusalem]

18. Chucks...

only kind I wear...

[last_texas_dem]

19. Tennashoes

Honestly, I grew up hearing my parents say this and thought this was some special name for the shoes! I don't think I realized the term was actually "tennis shoes" until I was in third grade or so. I still call them this if I'm having to differentiate between them and another type of shoes, but I normally just say "shoes" since this is the only type of shoes I've ever worn, outside of work, on a regular basis.

[bobthedrummer]

20. Shoes.