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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.
Beacon House
Beacon House is a Grade I listed Georgian town house built in 1766 on New Street in Painswick, Gloucestershire, possibly by the architect John Wood the Younger.
Beacon Power
Beacon Power is an American energy storage company headquartered in Tyngsboro, Massachusetts that designs and operates grid-scale flywheel plants providing frequency regulation in New York and Pennsylvania.
Beacon Roofing Supply, Inc.
Beacon Roofing Supply, also known as Beacon Building Products, was an American roofing and building products distributor acquired by QXO for about $11 billion in 2025.
Beacon Theatre (New York City)
Beacon Theatre, New York City: 1929 Upper West Side movie palace at 2124 Broadway, designed by Walter W. Ahlschlager, now a ~2,800-seat MSG-operated landmark concert hall, home to the Allman Brothers Band's final show.
Beacon Therapeutics
Beacon Therapeutics Holdings Limited is a London-based clinical-stage ophthalmic gene therapy company, launched in 2023 by Syncona and Oxford's Robert MacLaren to develop AAV therapies for retinal diseases causing blindness.
Beacon, New York
Beacon, New York, is a city on the Hudson River in Dutchess County, consolidated from Fishkill Landing and Matteawan in 1913 and known today for Dia Beacon.
Beaconsfield
Beaconsfield (Beckenesfeld) is a Buckinghamshire market town about 23 miles west of London, named from Old English for beech. Old Town coaching stop, 1906 railway and New Town, Bekonscot model village (1929), twinned with Langres.
Bead
Bead: a small perforated object of glass, shell, stone, clay, bone, or metal, strung or sewn as adornment, currency, or trade good; also called trade beads. Known from 142,000-year-old shell beads, Venetian Murano production, and North American fur-trade assemblages.