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to go to the beach

to go to the beach

58 1.0
To visit the sea to relax, swim, and enjoy the sun
  • phrasal verb
translation icon : ir a la playa
  • She suggested we go to the beach for a picnic this weekend.
  • want to go to the beach
  • let's go to the beach
  • like to go to the beach

So we, he tried to replace surfing and going to the beach with golfing.

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Examples

  • Helen had a date with her sister that September to go to the beach.

    Fiction book (1996)

  • Why don't we go to the beach and have some drinks?

    Pretenders (2021)

  • Remember when we went to the beach a while ago?

    65 (2023)

  • Anyone wanna go to the beach?

    I'm Not Gay : A Musical (2023)

  • We'll go to the beach.

    Lord of the Flies (1963)

  • When I was young, we would go to the beach every week.

    Academic text (2006)

  • Once, she even suggested that when I got better, we could all go to the beach together.

    Fiction book (1993)

  • So I went to the beach yesterday and I got a little bit of a sunburn.

    Carli Bybel

  • We're going to do some aerobics, and then we plan to go to the beach.

    Fiction book (1992)

  • Hey, I know, let's go to the beach and go surfing.

    RV (2006)

Antonyms

to stay home
336 1.0

Be at home and not go out

Surface Forms

go to the beach infinitive
went to the beach past
gone to the beach past participle
going to the beach present participle
goes to the beach third person singular

Morphology

go + to + the + beach

The meaning 'to visit the seaside' is directly and transparently derived from combining 'go' (move/travel) with the destination phrase 'to the beach' — a standard motion verb + destination construction that is cross-linguistically common. The function words 'to' and 'the' only mark direction and definiteness and add no idiomatic meaning, so a B1 learner who knows the constituents will infer the MWE's meaning.

Etymology

The phrase go to the beach gives a simple picture: you go to the beach, the sandy shore by the sea, to relax and swim, so it means 'to visit the seaside for leisure'.