Pakistan - PT ( Physical Training) shoes, worn during Physical Education classes in school.

New Zealand – sandshoe was commonly used in the past, although it is now somewhat old-fashioned.

In County Armagh they were occasionally called Marcel Marceaus - related to the popularity with a burgeoning county mime scene. Occasionally called rubber dollies in County Cork. The brown version is used by most police and military units as a gym training shoe.

India – white plimsolls are often worn by school children and are known as Keds dating from the 1970s and earlier, and more commonly, as 'canvas shoes'.

Canada – also called running shoes, or runners.Australia – sandshoe, sneakers or runners, and include the similar shoe, the Dunlop Volley.Plimsolling is also a synonym for a slippering.Ĭonverse All-Star canvas basketball shoes It was commonly used for corporal punishment in the British Commonwealth, where it was the typical gym shoe (part of the school uniform). If white they required hours of application of shoe whitener, if black they were required to be polished until they gleamed. Plimsolls were issued to the British military (called 'road slappers' by the common soldiery) until replaced by trainers in the mid-80s. However, this seems unlikely as the first citation in the Oxford English Dictionary of 'dap' for a rubber soled shoe is a March 1924 use in the Western Daily Press newspaper Dunlop did not acquire the Liverpool Rubber Company (as part of the merger with the Macintosh group of companies) until 1925. There is a widespread belief that 'daps' is taken from a factory sign – 'Dunlop Athletic Plimsoles' which was called 'the DAP factory'. In London, the home counties, much of the West Midlands, the West Riding of Yorkshire and northwest of England they are known as 'pumps'. In parts of the West Country and Wales, they are known as 'daps' or 'dappers'. In parts of Edinburgh and Midlothian they are known as “rubbers” or “gym rubbers” owing to their rubber soles and the need to wear them in the school gym hall. In Northern Ireland and Scotland they may be known as gutties 'sannies' (from 'sand shoe') is used in Scotland.

Regional terms are common: around their area of origin ( Liverpool, in northwest England) they are often referred to as 'Galoshes'. In the UK plimsolls are commonly worn for schools' indoor physical education.

A small-sized plimsoll with a tartan design, using a CVO (Circular Vamp Oxford) design/style

Another word for running shoes