gym shoe vs plimsoll

gym shoe

noun
  • Canvas shoe with a pliable rubber sole, used especially by children. 

  • running shoe, trainer. 

plimsoll

noun
  • A rubber-soled lace-up canvas shoe for sports or onboard ships; a precursor of trainers. 

  • The plimsoll symbol ⦵ (or o) that is used as a superscript in the notation of thermodynamics to indicate an arbitrarily chosen non-zero reference point. 

How often have the words gym shoe and plimsoll occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )