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beachgoing

beachgoing noun: the activity of going to the beach for recreation.

Noun

beachgoing (uncountable)

  1. The activity of going to the beach for recreation.
    • Even in the posthippie era, no Chicago territory could be claimed for bare-ass beachgoing.1990 September 7, Ron Dorfman, “Heliotherapy”, in Chicago Reader
    • […] he and Frances Sternhagen played a long-married couple whose beachgoing idyll is interrupted by the arrival of two inquisitive amphibians.2007 October 3, Robert Berkvist, “George Grizzard, Actor Noted for Albee Roles, Dies at 79”, in New York Times

Adjective

beachgoing (not comparable)

  1. Visiting a beach recreationally.

Origin of beachgoing

From beach + going.

Questions about beachgoing

What does beachgoing mean?
Beachgoing means the activity of going to the beach for recreation.
What part of speech is beachgoing?
Beachgoing can be a noun or an adjective.

Words near beachgoing in the dictionary

  1. beachfuls
  2. beachgirl
  3. beachgirls
  4. beachgoer
  5. beachgoers
  6. beachgoing
  7. beachgrass
  8. beachgrasses
  9. beachhead
  10. beachheads
  11. beachhopper

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