This.

I have never heard of a bike having a "freegear". It has a freewheel. This means that when there is no drive to the rear sprocket, the wheel is still free to spin.

Therefore, for as long as I can remember, there have been bikes with "freewheels" which "freewheel" (rather than "coast") and there have been bikes with "fixed wheel".

I sort of half wanted a fixed wheel bike for many years before finally making the purchase some time in the 2000s. I had to search quite hard to find one. Little did I know that a year or two later they would become a Thing and I would be accused — for the first time in my life — of being fashionable.

I adopted the term "fixie" in general conversation until I began to understand that these fashionable fixies that I had never seen (I am quite provincial and very unsociable) were all about bright colours, deep rims, tiny little handlebars, riding without brakes on the Queen's highway, and skidding to a stop outside overpriced coffee shops.

then experimented with using the term "fixed gear" because I accepted that it is now in common use, but found it sticks in the throat a bit, so now I just refer to my fixed wheel bike as "the fixed" — which unfortunately makes it sound like a little known student punk band from about 1978.

I don't really mind what other people call their bikes, though. Also, although I would never refer to a "doggy", when I am saying hello to a dog, I often call it "Doggy".