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# trainer

noun (a trainer, trainers)

«trainer» in the English dictionary: everyday — its meanings, how the lessons use it, and examples, each with its tree on Mova.

## Everyday

1. A person who teaches people or animals to do something, especially a sport or a skill, like a football trainer or a dog trainer. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/trainer/#m1)
2. In British, Irish and Australian English, trainers are soft sports shoes for running and games (Americans say sneakers). [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/trainer/#m2)
3. A thing used for practice, like training wheels (stabilisers) or a trainer cup for a baby. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/trainer/#m3)

### In the lessons

In PE and everyday life, a trainer coaches a team and keeps players fit; a dog trainer teaches dogs to sit and walk on a lead. In the UK and Ireland you wear trainers for PE; in the USA and Canada they are sneakers, and in Australia and New Zealand people also say runners or sneakers. Phrases: "a pair of trainers", "personal trainer", "dog trainer", "horse trainer", "do up your trainers".

### Examples

- Put your trainers on for PE. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/trainer/#x1)
- I need new trainers because mine have a hole. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/trainer/#x2)
- The trainer made us run three laps of the field. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/trainer/#x3)
- The dog trainer taught Rex to sit and stay. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/trainer/#x4)
- My big sister has a personal trainer at the gym. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/trainer/#x5)
- The horse trainer gave the pony an apple. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/trainer/#x6)
- Tie your trainer laces so you do not trip. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/trainer/#x7)
- Our football trainer says practice makes progress. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/trainer/#x8)

### Note

Trainers (shoes) is usually plural, "a pair of trainers" — in maths, one pair = 2 trainers. "Trainer" is a person who trains; "trainee" is the person being trained. American English: sneakers; "a trainer" in the USA is usually a person (an athletic trainer). The ending -er often means "a person who does", as in teacher, baker, trainer.

## On Mova

- [Trees and pragmatics of «trainer» in the school dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/trainer/): every meaning and example parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.
- [«trainer» in the school dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/school/w/trainer.html) on Mova free.