Sneakers or tennis shoes??
 

What do you call it sneakers or tennis shoes?

I call it both. My family is from the south.:D

I call them....
 

tennis shoes:)

Uuggghhh!!! I can't stand to hear people say tennis, or tennis shoes. I am from Chicago and some say sneakers and others along with myself say gym shoes. As tennis or tennis shoes:eek:

I say sneakers but everyone here says gym ghoes. I was born in Philly and even though I've spent the majority of my life in Chicago, I'm still holding on to my east coast roots.

I say:Tennis Shoes, or Tennis....
I think it's because I'm from the South

It's sneakers all the way baby!!! But I got fam and friends in the south, and tennis shoes is all they say.

Now I even find myself just sayin "kicks"...don't ask because I don't l know.:)

:D :D :D

People please:

Tennis shoes are for playing Tennis

Gym shoes are for gym class or working out and

Sneakers are for sneaking around....I'm just kiddin' :p :D

NYC - We call them sneakers...although I have heard our youth refer to them as "sneaks" or "kicks".

;)

well on the left coast it is tennis shoes and my eastcoast spouse cringes when our children request to go shopping for "new" tennis shoes (he's a sneakers affcianado)

Tennis shoes. But I can't stand when people pronounce it "teny shoes" or "tennys" :mad:

I call them sneakers. Being from New York I also call them 'sneaks' sometimes. :D

i'm from and residing in philly and it and always was sneakers. when i was at school in dc, they called them tennis shoes and it irked the hell out of me. and i've never heard gym shoes. tennis shoes were and are the sneakers that you play tennis in or the little white KEDS that girls use to rock with tennis skirts or capris.

CHICAGO
 

GYM SHOES

In Texas we say tennis shoes.

I'm from Philly and we call them sneakers or sneaks for short. But, since I have come down south for school (Florida) I have heard people calling those cheap little, no-name sneakers like KEDS "white girls." :eek: Has anyone else heard this? We always called them bo-bo's.

Well, I am from FL and I called them Bo-Bo's too. this white girls thing is new to me too! LOL Remember, a lot of people come down here for school, especially if you are in Tally, so maybe that originated somewhere else.

We called them skippies!

SweetestDiva, you would definately hate me cause that is how I pronounce it..."teny shoes"...lol

In Cleveland, we call no-name shoes and Payless shoes "Buddies"....never heard them called "white girls" before...but we do call white girls "Becky's or Buffy's", but that is a different subject entirely...lol

-G-

Tennis Shoes.:) Although in the midwest we do call those plain white tennis shoes "white girls".

Sneakers or trainers for athletic shoes, but Keds for...well.. Keds. :)

At home in Harlem, we call athletic shoes sneakers.

GOMAB

Sneakers or tennis...
 

Well, I'm from the South as well...(MS).... and I usually say both; sneakers and tennis "shoes"... :p

I call them sneakers and keds or no name sneakers are known as bo-bo's.

Does anyone say the little bo-bo's rhyme: bo-bo's they make your feet feel fine, bo-bo's they cost a $1.49, bo-bo's etc......?

We call off brand shoes "buddies", "skips", "white girls".

My son came in the other day singing this song:

Payless shoes ain't got no grip
You will fall and bust your lip.

Of course I told them better.

I've always called them sneakers or kicks

Los Angeles
 

Tennis or Tennis Shoes, pronounced: Tennie or Tennie shoes :) Sorry SweetestDiva if I'm making you cringe :)

Once again reppin for Chicago!!
 

GYM SHOES all the way!!

What do I call them?
 

Well considering that I'm from Kansas City, MO, I call them either Gym Shoes, Pumps, or even Kicks!!:)

When I was in elementary school I could not say sneakers right I said snickers. :D :D
So, I gave up and called them tennis shoes.

philly: sneakers
virginia: tennis shoes