Sneaker Freaker is a bi-annual Australian independent magazine

Magazine

Magazines, periodicals, glossies or serials are publications, generally published on a regular schedule, containing a variety of articles. They are generally financed by advertising, by a purchase price, by pre-paid magazine subscriptions, or all three...

 dedicated to coverage of topics relating to sneakers

Athletic shoe

Athletic shoe is a generic name for the footwear primarily designed for sports or other forms of physical exercise but in recent years has come to be used for casual everyday activities....

. The magazine was launched in 2002 and has a current print run of 30,000 copies, it is sold in over 35 countries. Sneaker Freaker was originally conceived as a means for its founder and editor, Simon Wood, to get free shoes.

The magazine is set to become a tri-annual magazine in 2008, and a Spanish

Spanish language

Spanish , also known as Castilian , is a Romance language in the Ibero-Romance group that evolved from several languages and dialects in central-northern Iberia around the 9th century and gradually spread with the expansion of the Kingdom of Castile into central and southern Iberia during the...

version of the magazine will also be produced in 2008.

Sneaker Freaker is also used as a term for a sneaker enthusiast, the target audience of the magazine.