HaHa, JAileen! Skiing DEFINITELY means snow for us! There are some performers who water ski, but for us plebes, it is always snow!

Has anyone heard the term 'gutties' - a long time ago I had an irish BF and he used that term for trainers.

I love the word 'sneaks' and I think that is what I am going to use from here on in - but trainers would be the word I would normally use.

Gutties is Scottish,here in Wales they are dappers or daps for short.

New Englander with New Yorker parents. Only ever sneakers and soda! French Canadian husband used to say pop. Not sure I've heard him say it recently though. Maybe he's joined the dark side.

I'm from Michigan and it has always been tennis shoes or tennies for me

Growing up on the East Coast, athletic shoes were called sneakers. I play tennis and I wear court shoes, not tennis shoes. I realize court shoes are something entirely different in the UK. They are low to medium height pumps with a low cut vamp.

Seattle here. Always tennis shoes or tennies unless they are for running, walking or cross training. Then they sometimes get called by their function, but it's still "where are my turquoise/red/black/white tennis shoes?"

That quiz puts me in Seattle, Spokane or Portland.

Sneakers!

From the quiz, I got Baltimore, Washington and Winston Salem NC. Pretty accurate since I grew up about an hour north of Bal'more and now live in the south!

Great question. As a child growing up in Michigan, they were tennis shoes. At some point in high school or college, they became gym shoes. And now I never know what to call them. Athletic shoes is a serious overstatement, in my case. My solution is to call them my Nike’s. Or my Brook’s. Or my walking shoes.

Well, how interesting. I am obviously more New Brunswicker or Maritimer than Canadian, cuz to me they are sneakers. Tennis shoes are for tennis... runners are for running... sneakers are for good ole fashioned all purpose...sneaking.