- a lace used for fastening shoes
- Shoelaces, which are also called shoe-strings, shoe laces, or boot laces, are a system commonly used to secure shoes, boots and other footwear. They typically consist of a pair of strings or cords, one for each shoe, finished off at both ends with stiff sections. ...
- (Shoelaces) An intertwined fibre theoretically devised for attaching a leather frame bound by rapidly oscillated fibres to the foot (or species equivalent) of a life form so as to protect it from the natural and harmless surroundings. ...
- Shoestring (but both nations use the term "shoestring budget")