sneaker

English

sneak +‎ -er

A pair of sneakers

sneaker (plural sneakers)

One who sneaks.
(Can we find and add a quotation of Lamb to this entry?)
(US, Atlantic Canada) An athletic shoe with a soft, rubber sole.
(Britain, dialect, archaic) A vessel of drink.
- Spectator
  A sneaker of five gallons.

(sports shoes): kicks (US), trainer (UK), running shoe, see also Thesaurus:sports shoe

one who sneaks

leisure shoes, often worn for sports; trainers

Albanian: atlete (sq)
Arabic: حِذَاء رِيَاضِيّ‎‎ m (ḥiḏāʾ riyāḍiyy)
Egyptian Arabic: جزمة رياضية‎‎ f (gázma reyaḍéyya), كوتشى‎‎ m (kótši)
Catalan: vamba f, ked f (Lleida), sabatilla
Chinese:
Cantonese: 波鞋 (bo¹ haai⁴)

Mandarin: 球鞋 (zh) (qiúxié), 運動鞋 (zh), 运动鞋 (zh) (yùndòngxié)
Czech: tenisky f pl, kecky f pl
Dutch: sportschoenen (nl) pl, m
Finnish: lenkkarit pl (colloquial), lenkkitossut pl, tossut (fi) pl
French: baskets (fr) f pl, tennis (fr) f pl, espadrille (fr) f (Canada)
Galician: zapatilla f
German: Turnschuhe (de) m pl, Leinenschuhe m pl, Schnürschuhe (de) m pl, Sneakers (de) m pl, Sportschuhe (de) m pl, Tennisschuhe (de) m pl,
Greek: αθλητικά παπούτσια n pl (athlitiká papoútsia)
Hungarian: tornacipő (hu), edzőcipő
Icelandic: strigaskór (is) m

Italian: scarpe da ginnastica f pl, scarpe da tennis f pl
Japanese: スニーカー (sunīkā), 運動靴 (うんどうぐつ, undōgutsu)
Korean: 운동화 (ko) (undonghwa)
Lithuanian: sportbačiai pl, sportiniai batai pl
Macedonian: па́тики f pl (pátiki)
Malay: kasut sukan
Norman: traîneurs m pl
Norwegian: joggesko m
Polish: tenisówki f pl, trampki f pl
Portuguese: tênis (pt) m, ténis (pt) m (Portugal)
Romanian: baschet (ro) n
Russian: кроссо́вки (ru) f pl (krossóvki), сни́керы (ru) m pl (sníkery), ке́ды (ru) m pl, f pl (kédy)
Scottish Gaelic: brògan-cleasachd f pl
Spanish: tenis m (especially Latin America, regional usage in Spain - in full : zapato de tenis), bamba f (Northeastern Spain), botín m (Seville, Southern Spain), champión m (Paraguay, Uruguay), deportiva f (Spain), espores m pl (Northeastern Argentina), espais m pl (Cantabria, Northern Central Spain), gomas f pl (Northwestern Venezuela), guachicón m (Northeastern Venezuela), kets m pl (Lleida, Catalonia, Northeastern Spain), kids m pl (Bolivia), maripís m pl (Aragon, Northern Central Spain), playera f (Spain), popis m pl (Cuba), zapatilla deportiva f (Argentina, Chile, Panama, Peru, Spain), zapato de goma m (Venezuelan standard usage), deportivas (es) f
Swedish: gymnastikskor, gympadojor (slang)
Turkish: jimnastik ayakkabısı, lastik ayakkabı, lastik pabuç, sessiz ayakkabı, (slang) spor ayakkabı; spor ayakkabısı

sneak +‎ -er

sneaker (plural sneakers)

(biology) sneaker male
- 2008, Faye Flam, The Score: The Science of the Male Sex Drive
  These sneakers may go on this way indefinitely, or, if one of the big males somehow dies or disappears, a sneaker male's hormones will trigger a huge growth spurt and he'll metamorphose into an alpha male.

sneaker m (plural sneakers, diminutive sneakertje n)

sneaker m (plural sneakeres)

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