tennis shoe
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- noun
- /ˈtɛnɪs ʃu/
- US
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- She decided to buy a new pair of tennis shoes for her fitness classes.
- wearing tennis shoes
Obviously, you know, making tennis shoes or whatever is a great profession.
- Obviously, you know, making tennis shoes or whatever is a great profession.
- I don't ever, ever, ever ever wear like sneakers or tennis shoes, whatever people call them.
- I would probably go with jeans and a hoodie and tennis shoes.
- I like coats like this with leggings, with tennis shoes.
- Nowadays, if I disagree with you on, you know, would you rather rather, you know, wear, I don't know, tennis shoes or boots?
- And if physical health is going to become a priority in the upcoming years of your life, just put on your tennis shoes.
- But Freeman said that if you were wearing like rubber soled tennis shoes standing in this vehicle, you would just feel a mild vibration.
- I was like, I am not wearing uniform and tennis shoes, but so you know, I'm back on active duty again.
- I've never seen tennis shoes, Bibles, coins, gold bars, MAGA.
- You can't I wear tennis shoes like these.
- Little tops and jeans, jacket, tennis shoes in my bag.
- And his disgusting, horrific gold tennis shoes.
Examples
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You see that little old lady over there, the one with the blue tennis shoes?
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She... is in a yellow jogging suit... white tennis shoes and she brought her purse.
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Now, why do you need so many tennis shoes?
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Max, l need a pair of tennis shoes.
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And you were running around trying to find your tennis shoes.
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All day long he walks around in tennis shoes.
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When you say "tennis shoes do you mean tennis shoes or running shoes?
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Americans refer to them as tennis shoes or sneakers.
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Glass crunched under my tennis shoes as I jumped down onto the tile floor inside.
Fiction book (1992) -
Young man, if you think you can put your dirty tennis shoes on my brand-new coffee table, you're gonna have to think again.
Synonyms
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A covering for the foot with a sole and often a heel
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A light shoe with a rubber sole for sports or casual wear
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A light shoe with a flexible rubber sole for sports or exercise
How Supportive
- US
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1.0
- Informal
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7.8
Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning 'a shoe for playing tennis' is directly and compositionally derived from 'tennis' (the sport) + 'shoe' (footwear); a learner who knows both words will readily infer a shoe associated with tennis. Although the term has extended in some varieties to mean casual athletic shoes, this semantic extension is predictable and the compound follows common noun+noun formation patterns found across languages, making it transparent to a B1 learner.
Etymology
The name tennis shoe comes from the simple tennis shoes players wore on the court; they were light cloth shoes with rubber soles so players could run and stop quickly. So today tennis shoe means any light, comfortable sports or casual shoe, not just one for 'to play tennis'.