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Beach Break Surf Club
Beach Break Surf Club names several unrelated surf businesses: a 2008 surf school and kiosk in Chiavari, Italy; the Beach Break Surf Club & Hotel opened November 2024 at Playa Guiones, Nosara, Costa Rica; and BeachBreak surf and kite center in Noordwijk, Netherlands.
Beach Burial
Beach Burial is a 1944 poem by the Australian poet and war correspondent Kenneth Slessor, describing dead sailors buried in sand under crosses marked "Unknown seaman".
Beach Energy
Beach Energy Limited, formerly Beach Petroleum, is an Australian oil and gas exploration and production company headquartered in Adelaide, founded by Reg Sprigg in the early 1960s.
Beach handball
Beach handball, also called HandballBeach, is a sand-court variant of handball played 4-a-side in two 10-minute periods, created on Ponza, Italy in 1992, IHF-recognized in 1994, with two-point trick shots and a 2018 Youth Olympic debut.
Beach handball at the 2018 Summer Youth Olympics
Beach handball at the 2018 Summer Youth Olympics, Buenos Aires: Olympic debut 8–13 October 2018, 24 teams from 17 nations. Spain won boys' gold, Argentina girls' gold and boys' bronze.
Beach handball at the World Games
Beach handball at the World Games: men's and women's beach handball at the IWGA's World Games. Invitational from Akita 2001, official sport since Cali 2013; Germany men and Argentina women won gold at Chengdu 2025; Karlsruhe 2029 next.
Beach House
Beach House is an American dream pop duo from Baltimore, Maryland, formed by Victoria Legrand and Alex Scally, known for hazy, organ- and drum-machine-driven songs since 2006.
Beach nourishment
Beach nourishment, also called beach replenishment or beachfill, is the placement of dredged sand on eroding beaches to widen them and buffer storms, first practiced in the United States in the 1920s.
Beach Pneumatic Transit
Beach Pneumatic Transit, also called the Beach Pneumatic Underground Railway, was a one-block demonstration subway under Broadway in Manhattan, opened by inventor Alfred Ely Beach in 1870 as New York City's first subway.
Beach polo
Beach polo, a sand-based variant of arena polo, is played three-a-side on horseback with an inflatable ball and boards; born in Dubai in 2004 after Mark Selway's 2002 Irish tournaments, with events in Dubai, Sandbanks, and Miami.
Beach Rats
Beach Rats is a 2017 American drama by Eliza Hittman about Frankie, a Brooklyn teenager secretly meeting older men online while dating Simone; Sundance Directing Award winner starring Harris Dickinson, released August 25, 2017 by Neon.
Beach Read (film)
Beach Read (film): upcoming 2027 American romantic comedy adapted from Emily Henry's 2020 novel, directed and written by Yulin Kuang, starring Phoebe Dynevor and Patrick Schwarzenegger as rival writers January Andrews and Gus Everett, releasing theatrically May 7, 2027.
Beach Reads
"Beach Reads" is the fourth episode of Apple TV's comedy horror Widow's Bay, written by Mackenzie Dohr and directed by Sam Donovan, released May 13, 2026. Patricia's self-help book is a grimoire; the episode is the season's highest-rated and won Kate O'Flynn an Emmy.
Beach ridge
A beach ridge is a low, continuous ridge of beach sand, sometimes with windblown sediment, deposited on the backshore beyond the reach of storm waves or ordinary tides.
Beach soccer
Beach soccer: five-a-side football on sand, three 12-minute periods, no draws, codified by BSWW in 1992, FIFA World Cup since 2005; Brazil holds a record seven titles.
Beach Soccer World Championships
Held annually from 1995 to 2004, the Beach Soccer World Championships was the first world tournament of the sport. Brazil won nine titles, while Portugal claimed the 2001 championship.
Beach tennis
Beach tennis, also called matkot-adjacent beach racket sport, is a sand-court doubles game with stringless paddles, a Stage 2 orange ball, a 1.7 m net, and no bounce, governed by the ITF (World Tennis) and the IFBT since its 1978 Ravenna origins.
Beach volleyball
Beach volleyball: two-a-side volleyball on sand, FIVB-governed, Olympic since Atlanta 1996; sets to 21 points, 16 x 8 m court, block counts as a hit, no substitutions.
Beach wrestling
Beach wrestling: sand-based wrestling style codified by FILA/UWW in 2004; single 3-minute bout, first to 3 points wins via takedowns, pushouts, throws; featured at ANOC Beach Games, FISU, and Dakar 2026 Youth Olympics.
Beach, Please! Festival
Beach, Please! Festival: Romanian hip-hop and trap festival founded 2022 by Selly (Andrei Șelaru) and George Carabelea at Costinești, Black Sea; grew to 500,000+ attendees by 2025 at Nibiru Resort.
Beachclub Blankenberge
Beachclub Blankenberge (formerly O'Neill Beachclub) is a water and beach sports club at Zeedijk 245, Blankenberge, Belgium, near the Pier. It offers windsurfing, kitesurfing, wave surfing, SUP lessons and rental, youth team Rebels, and summer surf camps, open April to October.
Beaches (1988 film)
Beaches is a 1988 Garry Marshall comedy-drama starring Bette Midler and Barbara Hershey as lifelong friends C.C. Bloom and Hillary Whitney, adapted from Iris Rainer Dart's 1985 novel, a Touchstone release whose "Wind Beneath My Wings" won a Grammy.
Beaches (musical)
Beaches is a Broadway musical based on Iris Rainer Dart's 1985 novel about the lifelong friendship of Cee Cee Bloom and Bertie White, which ran in 2026.
Beaches of the D-Day Landings, Normandy, 1944
Beaches of the D-Day Landings, Normandy, 1944 (Les Plages du Débarquement): UNESCO World Heritage serial site inscribed 26 July 2026, six components (Utah, Omaha, Gold, Juno, Sword, Pointe du Hoc) over about 80 km, criterion (vi), 4,228.68 ha.
Beachy Head
Beachy Head is a chalk headland near Eastbourne, East Sussex, with Britain's highest chalk cliffs (up to 156 m), the Belle Tout lighthouse (moved inland in 1999) and the 1902 Beachy Head Lighthouse.
Beacon
A beacon is a transmitter or light that continuously radiates a distinctive signal so ships, aircraft, or rescue services can determine a bearing, position, or emergency.
Beacon 23
Beacon 23 is an MGM+ science fiction series (2023–2024) created by Zak Penn from Hugh Howey's 2015 short-story collection, starring Lena Headey and Stephan James as strangers trapped on a space lighthouse; two eight-episode seasons, mixed reviews.
Beacon Biosignals
Beacon Biosignals, formerly Checkpoint AI, Inc., is a Boston neurotechnology company founded in 2019 by Jake Donoghue and Jarrett Revels that pairs wearable EEG with AI for brain-health diagnostics.
Beacon Hill Hillfort
Beacon Hill Hillfort (Burghclere, Hampshire) is a scheduled large univallate Iron Age hillfort enclosing 3.84 ha, with hornwork entrance, unploughed interior, 1912 Woolley excavation, and the tomb of the fifth Earl of Carnarvon.
Beacon Hill, Boston
Beacon Hill, Boston: historic Federal/Greek Revival neighborhood on the Shawmut Peninsula; Trimountain remnant cut to 80 feet; 1955 historic district, 2024 expansion, 9,327 residents, ~$2M median sale price.