I'm so old that I remember calling them "Keds." This was in Connecticut, not far from the U.S. Rubber plant where they made them.

Another Canadian here, usually runners, occasionally sneakers.

Ok. I just did that quiz. It gave me the names of three cities I’ve lived in. I think they’re cheating. Because A) I’ve done a like quiz before and gotten the North East and B) the map shows that the NE and these cities are similar!

I'm from the Midwest, so tennis shoes all the way. When I was a kid, I didn't even realize that it was two words, "tennis shoes". I thought it was all one word - "tennushoes" - that had nothing to do with "tennis".

"Tennies" But I don't live in the Midwest anymore, so often say "sneakers" now. And "soda" too!

I'm a New Englander and a New Yorker. I say sneakers, and I definitely say soda, except when I visit my husband's family's summer home in western Michigan. There, I reluctantly ask for "pop."

Canadian here! Runners or running shoes, even if no running is involved!

In NZ we mostly say “runners” but there is a twist. If the lace-up kind to go for a run in, they would be runners, but the slip-on more fashion kind like my new Skechers would be sneakers. And when I was growing up high-tops were definitely called “basketball boots” and were worn for netball!

Nobody even knew what netball was here until rather recently (last decade or so). If I used the word "soda" or "pop", I'd feel like I was in a 50's diner sketch episode.

Runners or sneakers or in the past sandshoes. Tennis shoes are specific to tennis for me.

I grew up with tennis shoes in the Midwest - my mom still calls them “tennies.” I switched to calling them sneakers in college because no one else said tennis shoes. Now that I live in Texas, I have heard them called tennis shoes again, or “tenny shoes.”

I grew up in the Midwest. We called the tennis shoes.

Just did that test. My 3 cities are Seattle, Tacoma and Spokane. I guess I'd blend in in Washington. They're close to Canada, I guess.

Canadian chiming in with runners!

I’m from North Carolina—it was always sneakers.

I grew up in the US in the Deep South and like Preppy Pear noted, they were called "tenny shoes". I now live in the Mid Atlantic region and my three boys and all the teenagers call them sneakers. There is sneaker culture and sneaker heads if you are really into buying and selling high end sneakers.

Marilyn: It is to distinguish between roller skating and ice skating! And what do Canadians call soft drinks? We call it pop here, though many people call it soda; in the south they tend to call it all coke.

When I take the quiz, I can make it come out either for Boston or Madison/Milwaukee, but I still call them rotaries, and people still laugh at me for not pronouncing marry the same as merry and Mary.

Sneakers. Grew up from the age of 8 in NJ .

Sneaks and tennies. But I guess I would probably say sneakers these days due to sneaker culture. Californian.

I used to call them tennis shoes when I lived in Georgia, but once I moved to Louisiana, I picked up the habit of calling them sneakers. Not sure why?

Hello, A Canadian who grew up in New Brunswick; sneakers. But runners is common too. Solidly sneakers in my family though.

We refer to soft drinks as soft drinks. Also agreeing that ice skates is redundant. What the heck else are you skating on ? (no one is in danger of roller skating in Canada - lol).

Lifelong resident of mid-Atlantic US and grew up with “tennis shoes.” But somewhere along the line, “sneakers” took over. Tennis shoes seems too specific to, well, tennis!

I still call soft drinks “soda” but go further south of the Mason Dixon line and everything is a “coke” which is still weird to me.

Sneakers , trainers or plimsoles.

Another Canadian who calls them runners. Interestingly though, we out-in-the-boonies northern Albertans were introduced to the use of sneakers in elementary school. We had numerous teachers come from Atlantic Canada and they called them sneakers. They usually got blank stares until we clued in, combine this with them trying to pronounce various Mennonite last names, it made for some giggles at the start of the school year:-)

In some Scandinavian languages they are generally called "jogging shoes," though they might never be worn for jogging. However, people over 75 tend to still call them "tennis shoes" or just "rubber shoes."

Marilyn: Yes, people still do roller skate and/or roller blade. Rinks, where you can go to skate away the afternoon, have both; I still roller skate (like in the 1970's with quad wheels), while I have purchased roller blades for my Daughter (where the wheels are all in-line). Roller-skating is definitely most popular where we skate. LOTS of "old" people wear roller skates, while a few younger peeps wear roller blades. Roller blades are more popular when it comes to renting skates for going 'round the lakes, but quad skates are more popular for rink skating.

Growing up in Northern California, skiing meant in the mountains on snow. When I moved to Texas, skiing meant water skiing. Otherwise they called it snow skiing.