[Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/school/w/trainer.html)

[home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [dictionaries](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/) / [The school dictionary](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/school/) / trainer

[← T](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/school/T/)

# trainer

«trainer» in Mova's school dictionary: **A person who teaches people or animals to do something…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 5 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

noun (a trainer, trainers)

### meaning for a pupil

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://md.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://md.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://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/trainer/#m3)

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

### In the corpora

- [Ollie asks if he should sleep with his trainers on.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/51-scary-news-wars-disasters-and-how-to-talk-about-them/4/)
- [On PE day you wear or pack the sports clothes and trainers the school asks for and tie long hair back.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/253-getting-ready-and-the-school-day/5/)
- [Kai called his friend's new trainers ugly because he secretly wanted them, and his friend, sad, stopped wearing them.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/352-party-sweets-biggest-slice-best-pencils-and-pushing/13/)
- [In Nottingham, Jolene's mates all have the new trainers, and her family is skint (has no spare money).](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/489-hiding-it-from-friends-being-skint-at-school/0/)
- [True friends don't care much about trainers.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/489-hiding-it-from-friends-being-skint-at-school/3/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «trainer» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/trainer/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.