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Athletic shoes have become more specialized. So, you have walkers, cross trainers, basketball shoes, running shoes, trail running shoes, tennis shoes, they're all a bit different.
I find running and walking shoes to be the most comfortable. If you want/need some cushion then get the walkers. For the ultimate in comfort, go with light weight runners.
They look great but aren't very comfortable compared to the previously mentioned shoes.
IMO sneakers can be super comfortable & still fashion casual....like Rothy's....tho I like their flats even more! I wouldn't exercise in them ofc...but for just walking or a casual outdoor activity they are perfect.
I mostly call them sneakers. If they are canvas, I call them tennis shoes. I don't know why. My husband calls them running shoes because he runs. And hiking shoes are hiking shoes.
Just average, every day shoes we USED to call tennis shoes. Or the Brits call "trainers".
Nothing specialized, just the run-of-the-mill.
We always called them sneakers, and I always thought tennis shoes specifically meant the low plain white things that people wore to, you know, play tennis.
Then I found City-Data, and somewhere along the way in conversation about different regions having different names for things, I was shocked to learn that "sneakers" is only really common in the northeast and that most of the resst of the country calls ALL sneakers "tennis shoes".
On a side note, I was getting my hair braided in the Bahamas once by a woman who was telling me that she often went over to Florida for a few days to shop, and that she could get the "tennis" there much cheaper and her son, who was a police officer on another island, had asked her to pick him up a few more pair of tennis next time she goes.
Athletic shoes have become more specialized. So, you have walkers, cross trainers, basketball shoes, running shoes, trail running shoes, tennis shoes, they're all a bit different.
I find running and walking shoes to be the most comfortable. If you want/need some cushion then get the walkers. For the ultimate in comfort, go with light weight runners.
They look great but aren't very comfortable compared to the previously mentioned shoes.
All those things are a subset of "sneakers". According to ME, of course.
I buy and wear running shoes, but I don't run. They are just far more comfortable for walking. I bought an expensive pair of New Balance walking shoes once, and I didn't like them at all. The running shoes support my feet better.
Sneakers, as I've called them since I was 2 years old.
I used to read in some children's books that some people called "sneakers" "tennis shoes." That's how I found out that other parts of the country used a different name for the same shoes.
Just average, every day shoes we USED to call tennis shoes. Or the Brits call "trainers".
Nothing specialized, just the run-of-the-mill.
Where I grew up in Western PA, we always called them tennis shoes even though few people actually played tennis. I have never felt comfortable with the word, "sneaker," it just sounds weird. The "tennis shoes" I own are either running shoes or basketball shoes so I call them by those names. Back when I was in high school in the early 1970s, Converse Chuck Taylor basketball shoes were popular for guys. We called them "Chucks."
Where I grew up in Western PA, we always called them tennis shoes even though few people actually played tennis. I have never felt comfortable with the word, "sneaker," it just sounds weird. The "tennis shoes" I own are either running shoes or basketball shoes so I call them by those names. Back when I was in high school in the early 1970s, Converse Chuck Taylor basketball shoes were popular for guys. We called them "Chucks."
My cousins from Johnstown PA called them “tenny runners”.
No clue why.
I grew up calling them gym shoes, mainly because our school district was very strict about shoes in the gyms. You couldn’t wear anything but gym shoes on the gym floor of every school. And in fact at assemblies, if we (including teachers and staff) were wearing anything other than appropriate rubber soled footwear, we were instructed to take them off and walk barefoot on the wooden floor. I’m thinking maybe they use like a soft pine and it dented? Because now that I think about it it’s very obsessive behavior.
But it is fun to watch your principal in his socks do the slip and slide over to the podium in the gym.
My cousins from Johnstown PA called them “tenny runners”.
No clue why.
I grew up calling them gym shoes, mainly because our school district was very strict about shoes in the gyms. You couldn’t wear anything but gym shoes on the gym floor of every school. And in fact at assemblies, if we (including teachers and staff) were wearing anything other than appropriate rubber soled footwear, we were instructed to take them off and walk barefoot on the wooden floor. I’m thinking maybe they use like a soft pine and it dented? Because now that I think about it it’s very obsessive behavior.
But it is fun to watch your principal in his socks do the slip and slide over to the podium in the gym.
I never heard "tenny runners."
I remember junior high dances around 1968-1970 where they would put sawdust down on the gym floor for a school dance. It wasn't even a new, refinished gym floor.
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