to go to the beach
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1.0
- phrasal verb
:
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.
- So we, he tried to replace surfing and going to the beach with golfing.
- The chalk was in the pool, but then I think they went to the beach as well.
- So now I am going to go to the beach to get a little workout in.
- So I went to the beach yesterday and I got a little bit of a sunburn.
- I love laying around and going to the beach or just watching a movie or staying at home.
- DJs is across from the beach but we didn't go to the beach at all.
- Used to go to the beach whenever we went to the beach, which is not in Cincinnati, of course.
- So you could get a Mani pedi or your hair done and show up and go to the beach all ready.
Examples
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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?
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Remember when we went to the beach a while ago?
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Anyone wanna go to the beach?
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We'll go to the beach.
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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.
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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.
Antonyms
Surface Forms
Morphology
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'.