Beach (disambiguation) explained

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 town
• 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 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

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
• "The Beach" (song), a 2003 song by the duo Miss Kittin & The Hacker
• Beach (song), a song by San Cisco

People

See main article: Beach (surname).

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
• Cetacean stranding, when a whale beaches itself
• Wader, also known as beach bird

See also

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