In 1917 the Converse Rubber Shoe Company introduced its indoor gym shoe.
|
|
I am not usually hungry immediately following a workout but this morning I consider my gym shoe a viable snack.
|
|
For example, the entry that crosses 57A at the rebus, 41D's GYM[GAP]SHOE, may simply be read as GYM SHOE.
|
|
Scientists think the scales work like the tread on your gym shoe, helping the creatures get a better grip as they climb trees.
|
|
The whole thing looks like a bulky sleep mask, or a classy, minimalist gym shoe for your face — which feels better than it sounds.
|
|
What Mr. Rucci derided as Balenciaga's "whorish greed to sell a gym shoe" has not only spurred a huge boost in sales but propelled the brand into the consciousness of a new population.
|
|
The local and state authorities had ruled that the death was an accident, concluding that Mr. Johnson had been unable to breathe after getting stuck upside down in the middle of the rolled-up mat while reaching for a gym shoe.
|
|
As it was commonly used for corporal punishment in the British Commonwealth, where it was the typical gym shoe (part of the school uniform), plimsolling is also a synonym for a slippering. Converse All-Star canvas basketball shoes.
|
|
This could deliver a very painful stroke, depending on the force with which it was used, and the size and flexibility of the particular slipper; a size 11, well-worn, flexible slipper would deliver more sting than one that was new and stiff. Though not a slipper in the usual sense of the term, the implement used was invariably referred to as "the slipper" by teachers and pupils alike, presumably on account of its similarity to the type of carpet slipper used for parental punishments. Gym shoe School gym shoe The slipper was also widely used to enforce discipline outside lesson time within the boarding houses of boarding schools, especially preparatory schools. This "informal", on-the-spot type of discipline was typically not recorded in the official punishment register, as it was not seen as sufficiently serious to be classified as real corporal punishment.
|
|
This means it is difficult to stop them from becoming slippery when wet.UK Slip resistance group FAQ Most of the differences between the different disciplines can and should be catered for by the use of appropriate shoes. On the same surface, a dance shoe with a leather or suede sole will give much less traction than a gym shoe with a composite rubber sole. A sticky floor used for gym is very likely to cause twisted ankles, and a slippery floor used for dancing is liable to cause bad falls.
|
|
At age 65, Widen did not want to begin a new practice and decided to retire and try a new hobby. He took an evening art class at a local high school and completed his very first drawing: a charcoal sketch of a gym shoe that he had removed from his foot. The self-taught artist had no formal art school training but continued to pursue his art utilizing various media, such as colored pencils, graphite, acrylics and finally, oils. Widen found his greatest challenge and pleasure in painting with oils, particularly outdoor scenes and portraits.
|
|
Kretzschmar gives him directions to Leipzig's houseboat in a gypsy encampment on the Baltic Sea near Lübeck, but Karla's agents have already tortured and killed Leipzig. Smiley's search of Leipzig's boat uncovers the torn half of a postcard hidden underwater in an old gym-shoe on a fishing-line, witnessed by several people. Smiley rushes to finish his work in Lübeck before East German police and Soviet agents close in on him. He takes the postcard to Kretzschmar, who matches it to the other half and in exchange gives Smiley tape recordings made at the time the photograph of Leipzig and Kirov, and a photocopy of Maria's first letter to Vladimir.
|
|
The implement used in many state and private schools in England and Wales was often a rattan cane, struck either across the student's hands, legs, or the clothed buttocks. It had been very regularly used on both boys and girls in certain schools for centuries prior to the ban. Sometimes, a long ruler was used on the bare legs or hands instead of a cane. Striking the buttocks (or sometimes hands) with a rubber-soled gym shoe, or plimsoll shoe (called slippering), was also widely used in many schools. In Scotland, a leather strap, the tawse (sometimes called a belt), administered to the palms of the hands, was universal in state schools,"Rise and fall of the belt", Sunday Standard, Glasgow, 28 February 1982.
|
|