gym shoes
plimsolls BrE
sneakers AmE *
sandshoes AusE

They do not talk about cartoons and new gym shoes.

Like the gym shoes in the corner of the living room near his guitar.

A gift to the woman in the dirty white gym shoes.

But when he wore dark women's gym shoes, the size was not so obvious.

He would give us gym shoes after a game.

And they cost $230, a lot to pay for gym shoes.

She began telling a story about a boy named Kirby who could not find the gym shoes he needed for the big game.

Cold was rising from the ground floor through the soles of their gym shoes.

Sitting in the stands, he found it hard to listen to the soft music of gym shoes running up and down the floor.

Had he come along now, he himself might have been promoting some gym shoes.

They show off your long legs better than gym shoes and blue jeans."

Andrew smiled, took off his jacket and put on the pair of old gym shoes Robert was holding out for him.

The gym shoes didn't quite work, but they were good for scrambling over rock and gravel.

"They had very old equipment, little ammunition, ragged clothes and gym shoes.

The company's newest styles, like its Energy gym shoes, have reignited interest among teenagers.

Checked himself in the mirror: green tank top, red shorts, gym shoes, hat.

She helped Ellen to hunt for ages for her gym shoes which were lost.

But she said she would wait until the first week of September for more expensive items, including gym shoes and blue jeans.

We put on our gym shoes and trooped out to the gym in silence.

Kicking off my gym shoes, I pause to strip down to my suit.

Opening a locker with stinky gym shoes stopped the chaos for five seconds.

They were searching for the gym shoes.

"If I walk out with my gym shoes," he said, "I'm doing it."

Dwight humilates Toby by refusing to buy him gym shoes.

I would run there, tiptoe across the green tiles and after measurement sprint back to the changing room to put on my gym shoes.

She was back at 6, her plimsolls still very white.

Along came a young, athletic black African in a red track suit and white plimsolls.

Her summer ensemble ended with a pair of pink plimsolls.

There are a lot of young Americans about, in plimsolls and T-shirts.

One girl who turned up for night duty wearing plimsolls received a proper rocket.

Nails looked down at his feet, soaked in frayed plimsolls.

On her feet she wore a pair of black plimsolls without laces.

The eyes swept up from his size-eleven plimsolls to the face a foot above her.

I have been allowed to take off my shirt and am working in just shorts and plimsolls.

Canvas plimsolls are a better, cheaper bet for keeping cool in hot weather.

Other teachers made use of plimsolls or slippers when they considered that physical chastisement was called for.

She kicked off her plimsolls and talked about her foot rot.

After five minutes they stopped and removed their singlets and plimsolls.

They clustered around his ankles, hiding his plimsolls entirely from view.

I can't remember where they are, and I haven't got any plimsolls anyway.

You had "left" and "right" written on your plimsolls till you were fifteen!

I just had to wear my plimsolls.

He was wearing jeans and a bright yellow sweatshirt, with elasticated plimsolls on his feet.

The boy was wearing a pair of white canvas shorts, and rubber soled plimsolls.

His gloves and plimsolls were on fire, his bare ankles stinging with pain.

All wore singlets, loose slacks ending well above the ankle, and plimsolls.

Whitey type trainers, plimsolls, yeah that's close enough innit?

Novices will find plimsolls and sailing gloves useful.

He wore a thin roll-neck sweater, slacks, plimsolls and gloves, all black.

'They let the boy come on the road in plimsolls,' John said, 'in this weather.

All he had to do was put on his white sneakers.

He went on up the walk alone in his sneakers.

I'd just watch the sneakers through the window and make sure nothing goes wrong.

Others have sneakers to change into at the end of the day; that's not me.

Which he does, the minute his sneakers hit the first floor.

There were so many; they all wanted money, and sneakers.

Then I put on my sneakers and went outside to exercise.

All you could see of him were his legs and sneakers.

Three of the six at the first building were wearing sneakers.

A pair of my old sneakers were in her hand.

Black or white sneakers are the most common shoes in school.

The sneakers and athletic support he should pay to have taken away.

These were the days before sneakers became the national uniform.

One girl gave Carol the sneakers off her own feet.

She went over to the sink and looked at the sneakers.

But few could bring themselves to wear sneakers no matter how far they had to walk.

I seen a pair of old sneakers on the floor in the back.

The women often wonder what life would have been like had they run in each other's sneakers that day.

He would put on his black sneakers and walk in the fields by the side of the road.

White sneakers might also keep you out of the Tunnel.

I could hear her sneakers pounding the ground behind me.

So I took the sneakers off and went through again in my socks.

A quick change into sneakers, and she heads for the door.

When she worked I only got two pairs of sneakers a year.

You know, of course, that the other sneaker showed up within days.

I can buy some new sandshoes and a shirt.'

Those are Louis' neat sandshoes firmly printing the gravel.

"He wore sandshoes and he was sort of creepy."

Cycle helmet, wet weather gear, sunscreen, sandshoes and sun hat.

One man had a rucksack, another a white cotton hat, a third an unbuttoned shirt, a fourth, sandshoes.

'And if it's wet, please tie your sandshoes round your neck.

Clamped to them by metal braces were two stout wooden stilts nailed down to a pair of sandshoes.

Dunlop Australia first manufactured sandshoes in 1924.

Only this morning-only two hours ago-I was running wild in shorts and blazer and sandshoes.

He was about Anton's own age, ten or eleven; and still, as were they all, all the boys up on the wall, dressed in shorts and sandshoes.

Ian was wearing an old pair of Jupiter's trousers, a plain white shirt that Jupiter had worn out months ago, and a torn pair of sandshoes.

Barely keeping up with Quilter, they followed him as he strode in and out of the dunes, his stilted sandshoes carrying him across the banks of rubble.

Rupert shares, Rupert rescues, is never baffled by magic, never loses his sandshoes nor gets into tempers, is always home in time for tea.

He had does his best to look clean and neat for his friends, but he had had no money for some time, and it was impossible even to buy new sandshoes.

These were the children some of the teachers looked down on because they came to school with unmended holes in their jumpers, or no proper shoes, only canvas sandshoes to see them through the winter.

The earliest rubber-soled athletic shoes date back to 1876 in the United Kingdom, when the New Liverpool Rubber Company made plimsolls, or sandshoes, designed for the sport of croquet.