Within the office and industry, it was "sneakers" everywhere. [1]. All the guys in the office and anyone seriously collecting or lurking on the forums pretty much always said "sneakers". Anyone who wasn't into the scene though would say trainers.

I'm from Northern Ireland, so until I moved to the "mainland" I actually referred to them as "guddies". [2]

[1] https://web.archive.org/web/20131031030318/http://www.crooke...

[2] https://www.inyourpocket.com/belfast/How-till-spake-Norn-Iro...