sneakers

NOUN

running shoe

Synonyms

STRONGEST

cleat footwear shoe tennis shoe

STRONG

footgear sneak

WEAK

basketball shoe gym shoe hightop rubber-soled shoe

Example Sentences

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Its walls are lined with shelves of sneakers and basketball shoes - markets that Anta needs to win in the US to compete with Nike or Adidas.

From BBC • Apr. 26, 2026

Those 1990s light-up sneakers were ahead of their time, and hyperscale cloud computing for model training and inference workloads would be the perfect follow-up.

From Barron's • Apr. 16, 2026

American Exchange Group, whose other brands include Ed Hardy and Aerosoles, will get the rights to the Allbirds name and the designs for its eco-friendly wool sneakers.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 15, 2026

After losing its relevance as a purveyor of tech-bro sneakers, Allbirds wants to become an artificial-intelligence company — and its stock is up more than 300% on record volume.

From MarketWatch • Apr. 15, 2026

I shifted from side to side, staring at my sneakers.

From "Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence" by Sonja Thomas