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sneakers

n. (context US Atlantic Canada English) (plural of sneaker nodot=1 English)Category:English plurals: leisure shoes, often worn for sports; trainers.

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Sneakers

Sneakers (also known as athletic shoes, tennis shoes, runners, takkies, or trainers) are shoes primarily designed for sports or other forms of physical exercise. Sneakers have evolved to be used for casual everyday activities. The term generally describes a type of footwear with a flexible sole made of rubber or synthetic material and an upper part made of leather or synthetic materials. Examples of such shoes include athletic footwear such as: basketball shoes, tennis shoes, cross trainers and other shoes worn for specific sports.

Sneakers (1992 film)

Sneakers is a 1992 comedic caper film directed by Phil Alden Robinson, written by Robinson, Walter Parkes, and Lawrence Lasker and starring Robert Redford, Dan Aykroyd, Ben Kingsley, Mary McDonnell, River Phoenix, Sidney Poitier, and David Strathairn. The film marks the second collaboration between Phoenix and Poitier (the first being Little Nikita in 1988).

Sneakers (video game)

Sneakers, known in Japan as , is a video game published by Microsoft Game Studios and developed by Media.Vision for the Xbox. The North American version of the game was sold exclusively at Toys "R" Us retail stores.

In this game, the player takes on the role of a mouse named Apollo. Aided by his fellow rodent friends, Bonnie, Brutus, Watt and Pete, the player's goal is to find and eliminate the rats in your area (the house, back alley, central park, Doshi's cellar and the bridge) in order to find Bonnie's brother, Tiki.

Sneakers (short story)

"Sneakers" is a short story by American author Stephen King. It was published in the compilation book Dark Visions and in his collection Nightmares & Dreamscapes.

Sneakers (1981 video game)

Sneakers is a fixed shooter for the Apple II, created by Mark Turmell and published by Sirius Software in 1981. It's Turmell's first published game; he later worked on Smash TV, Total Carnage, and NBA Jam.

Sneakers (Danish band)

Sneakers was a Danish rock band from the early 1980s. Among its members were vocalist Sanne Salomonsen and on keyboards Morten Kærså.

Sneakers (2011 film)

Sneakers (, translit. Kecove) is a 2011 Bulgarian adventure film directed by Valeri Yordanov. The film won a Special Mention at the 2011 Moscow International Film Festival. It was also selected as the Bulgarian entry for the Best Foreign Language Oscar at the 85th Academy Awards, but it did not make the final shortlist.

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In sneakers he passed beneath the twelve damply newspapered birdcages suspended from the rafters.

Darcy with that smudge of freckles on the bridge of her nose, grimy knuckles and filthy fingernails, torn sneakers and scraped elbows and scabbed knees.

In an out of date powder blue polyester jump suit and cheap Converse sneakers, Juan Morales was sitting with his feet up on a table in the far corner of the county morgue watching a local news program on a nine inch black and white TV.

He had accidentally stumbled upon the rattraps, two of which were attached crookedly to his sneakers.

I must look, him in his sneakers and strontium rompers and flyaway hair, me with my butch suit, thin jekylls and proud-rounded shoes.

Jacky could turn, before she could put proper use to the swiftness stitcheries that Finn had sewn into her sneakers, they were upon her.

There were none of the sneakers, backpacks, sweaters, and other miscellaneous items that usually gathered while I was gone.

It seemed possible this was everything he owned, five sweat shirts, five pairs of chinos, five pairs of tennis sneakers.

But now the street door banged open behind her, a pair of muddy size-eleven neon sneakers came pounding down the stairs, and Samuel Saladin DuPree, his cheeks speckled with crusty gray commas of road-dirt, stood grinning at her, hugely.

In the sitting-room Bananas was looking mildly piratical in his open-necked shirt and his sneakers and his four days' growth of harsh black beard, but he himself would never have made anyone walk the plank.

I'd walk around those gloomy green-painted halls with big dark eyes full of fearlistening to the barbells clanking, the radios blasting, the basketballs bouncing, the sneakers squeaking, the laughter echoingshivering at all the badness coming at me from every which way, all the hatred, all the despair, all the confusion, all those young twisted hearts and ancient evil souls stuck in young fresh bodies, and I'd lower my eyes and say, ``Yes, sir,'' to anyone older than meand that was everyone, since I was the youngest dude there.

I'd walk around those gloomy green-painted halls with big dark eyes full of fear-listening to the barbells clanking, the radios blasting, the basketballs bouncing, the sneakers squeaking, the laughter echoing-shivering at all the badness coming at me from every which way, all the hatred, all the despair, all the confusion, all those young twisted hearts and ancient evil souls stuck in young fresh bodies, and I'd lower my eyes and say, ``Yes, sir,'' to anyone older than me-and that was everyone, since I was the youngest dude there.

Lovely, with high cheekbones, eyes as black as raven feathers, hair even blacker than Martie's, she was a Southwest princess in a white blouse with bluebirds embroidered on the collar, a faded denim skirt, folded bobbysocks and scuffed white sneakers.

Lovely, with high cheekbones, eyes as black as raven feathers, hair even blacker than Martie’s, she was a Southwest princess in a white blouse with bluebirds embroidered on the collar, a faded denim skirt, folded bobbysocks and scuffed white sneakers.

They viewed Vanessa'a intelligence as an act of willful disobedience against a school that wanted only for its students to have clear skin, pliant demeanors, and no overly inner-city desire for elaborately constructed sports sneakers.