A beach is a geological formation consisting of loose rock particles along the shoreline of a body of water.

Beach, Beaches or beaching may also refer to:

Geography

Canada

  • Beaches (federal electoral district), a federal electoral district in Toronto, Ontario
  • Beaches (provincial electoral district), a provincial riding in Toronto, Ontario
  • Beaches, Newfoundland and Labrador, a village
  • The Beaches, Toronto, a neighbourhood of Toronto, Canada

United States

  • Beach, Georgia, an unincorporated community
  • Beach, Missouri, an unincorporated community
  • Beach, North Dakota, a city
  • Beach, Washington, an unincorporated community
  • Jacksonville Beaches, or Beaches, a neighborhood of Jacksonville, Florida
  • The Beach (waterpark), a former water park in Albuquerque, New Mexico
  • The Beach at Adventure Landing, a water park in Mason, Ohio

Other places

  • Beach, Gloucestershire, a village in England
  • Kingdom of Beach, a promontory of Terra Australis appearing on Latin maps of the 16th century
  • List of beaches, of the world, sorted by country

Arts, entertainment, and media

Books

  • Beaches (novel), a 1986 novel by Iris Rainer Dart
  • The Beach (novel), a 1996 novel by Alex Garland
  • Sebastian Beach, character in the stories of P. G. Wodehouse

Film, TV, and Radio

  • Beaches (1988 film), starring Bette Midler and Barbara Hershey
  • Beaches (2017 film), a television remake of the 1988 film, starring Idina Menzel and Nia Long
  • The Beach (film), a 2000 film starring Leonardo DiCaprio
  • The Beach (TV series), a 2020 Australian lifestyle television series shown on SBS and NITV
  • The Beach (UK radio station), a British commercial local radio station in Great Yarmouth, Norfolk
  • CHWC-FM, a radio station in Goderich, Ontario, Canada, that identifies as "The Beach"
  • KTBH-FM, a radio station called "The Beach" on the Big Island of Hawaii
  • "The Beach" (Avatar: The Last Airbender) season 3, episode 5 (2007)

Music

  • Beach music, a music genre of the 1950s and 1960s
  • The Beaches (band), Canadian rock band
  • Beaches (soundtrack), the soundtrack to the 1988 film
  • "Beach" (song), a song by San Cisco from San Cisco (2012)
  • "The Beach", a song by Miss Kittin & The Hacker from First Album (2003)
  • "The Beach", a song by All Time Low from So Wrong, It's Right (2007)
  • "Beaches", a song by Beabadoobee from This Is How Tomorrow Moves (2024)

People

Little Beach

  • Little Beach in Makena State Park, Hawaii, United States
  • Little Beach, New Jersey, United States
  • Little Beach, Portland, Dorset, England

Other uses

  • California State University, Long Beach, often colloquially referred to as "The Beach"
  • The Long Beach State athletic program, officially branded as "The Beach" since 2020–21
  • Beaching (nautical), to lay a vessel ashore or ground it deliberately
  • Bettering the Evaluation and Care of Health (BEACH), an Australian Department of Health system for collecting data from general practice
  • Beaches Resorts, a Caribbean all-inclusive resort chain
  • Cetacean stranding, when a whale beaches itself

See also

  • Beech (disambiguation)
  • On the Beach (disambiguation)