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Sneakers (also referred to as athletic sneakers, tennis sneakers, fitness center sneakers, runners, takkies, or trainers) are shoes primarily designed for sports or different types of physical exercise, however which are actually additionally usually used for on a regular basis put on. The time period typically describes a sort of footwear with a versatile sole made from rubber or artificial materials and an higher half made from leather or artificial supplies. Examples of such sneakers embrace athletic footwear equivalent to: basketball sneakers, tennis sneakers, cross trainers and different sneakers worn for particular sports activities.

The time period "sneakers" is mostly used within the Northeastern United States and Southern Florida.[1][2] It's also utilized in North Carolina, Australia and Canada. The British English equal of "sneaker" in its fashionable kind is "coach". In some city areas within the United States, the slang for sneakers is kicks. Different phrases embrace coaching sneakers or trainers (British English), sandshoes, fitness center boots or joggers (Geordie English within the UK[3]), trainers, runners or gutties (Canadian English, Australian English and Scottish English), runners in Hiberno-English, sneakers (North American English) and (Australian English), tennis sneakers (North American English and Australian English), fitness center sneakers, tennies, sports activities sneakers, sneaks, takkies (South African English[4] and Hiberno-English), rubber sneakers (Philippine English) or canvas sneakers (Nigerian English).

Plimsolls (British English) are "low tech" athletic sneakers, and are additionally referred to as 'sneakers' in American English and 'daps' in Welsh English. The phrase "sneaker" is commonly attributed to American Henry Nelson McKinney who was an promoting agent for N. W. Ayer & Son. In 1917, he used the time period as a result of the rubber sole made the shoe stealthy. The phrase was already in use at the least as early as 1887, because the Boston Journal made reference to "sneakers" as "the title boys give to tennis sneakers." The title "sneakers" initially referred to how quiet the rubber soles had been on the bottom, in distinction to noisy normal laborious leather-based sole gown sneakers. Somebody sporting sneakers might "sneak up" on somebody whereas somebody sporting requirements couldn't.[5]

Earlier the title "sneaks" had been utilized by jail inmates to check with warders due to the rubber-soled sneakers they wore.

The time period 'athletic footwear' is usually used for footwear utilized for operating in a marathon or half marathon, basketball, and tennis (amongst others), however tends to exclude footwear for sports activities performed on grass reminiscent of association football and rugby football, that are commonly known as 'studs' or in North America as 'cleats'.

Trainers are available a spread of shapes suited to totally different operating kinds/skills. Typically, they're divided by operating model: the bulk are for heel-toe joggers/runners that are additional subdivided into 'impartial', 'overpronation' and 'underpronation'.[14][15] These are constructed with a posh construction of "rubber" with plastic/metallic stiffeners to limit foot motion. Extra superior runners are likely to put on flatter and flexible shoes, which permit them to run extra rapidly with better consolation.