Athletic shoe is a generic name for the footwear primarily designed for
sports or other forms of physical exercise but in recent years has come to
be used for casual everyday activities.
They are also known as kicks (American English) trainers (British English
and Hong Kong English), trabs (British English), daps (Wenglish), sandshoes,
gym boots or joggers (Australian English), running shoes, runners or
gutties (American English, Canadian English, Hiberno-English), sneakers (
American English, Australian English, and Indian English), tennis shoes (
British English and American English), gym shoes, tennies, sports shoes,
sneaks, tackies[1] (South African English and Hiberno-English), rubber shoes
(Philippine English) or canvers (Nigerian English).