A beach is a geological formation consisting of loose rock particles along the shoreline of a body of water.
Beach, BEACH, Beaches or beaching may also refer to:
Geography
Canada
- Beaches (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, 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
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, Lord Emsworth's butler in the stories of P. G. Wodehouse
Films
- 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
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
People
- Adam Beach (born 1972), Canadian actor
- Alfred Ely Beach (1826–1896), inventor and publisher
- Allen C. Beach (1825–1918), New York politician
- Amy Beach (1867–1944), American composer, also known as Mrs. H.H.A. Beach
- Bill Beach (1850–1935), Australian sculler
- Bill Beach (musician) (born 1953), American jazz musician
- Bill "Peg Pants" Beach (born 1932), American musician
- Charles L. Beach (1866–1933), president of the University of Connecticut
- David Nelson Beach (1848–1926), American theologian
- Edward L. Beach Jr. (1918–2002), U.S. Navy submarine commander and author
- Fred Beach (1897–1981), NFL footballer with Los Angeles Buccaneers
- George Beach (politician) (1817–?), New York politician
- George Beach (born 1926), Canadian-born ice hockey player
- Harlan Page Beach (1854–1933), American missionary, brother of David Nelson Beach
- Michael Beach (born 1963), American actor
- Moses Yale Beach (1800–1868), American inventor and publisher
- Nelson J. Beach (1800–1876), New York politician
- Ralph H. Beach, co-inventor of the Edison-Beach railcar
- Rex Beach (1877–1949), American author
- Steven Beach (born 1956), American psychologist
- Sylvia Beach (1887–1962), editor and bookseller
- Walter Beach (born 1933), American football player
- William Beach (disambiguation), several people:
- William Beach (1783–1856), British politician
- William Beach (American politician) (c. 1815–1860), American politician
- William Beach (economist), commissioner of U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics
- William Dorrance Beach (1856–1932), American army officer
- William Henry Beach (1871–1952), British Army officer
- Zenas Beach (1825–1898), Wisconsin politician
Other uses
- 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)
- The Beach (disambiguation)
- The Beach Boys (disambiguation)
- All pages with titles containing Beach