beachball

American  

[beech-bawl] / ˈbitʃˌbɔl /

noun

1. a large, light, buoyant ball, used especially for games at the seashore, swimming pools, etc.

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Etymology

Origin of beachball

First recorded in 1935–40; beach + ball ¹

Example Sentences

Shine a light outward from the center of the beachball so that the ball’s surface is projected onto the inside of the cylinder.

From Slate • Jan. 21, 2026

In their small frontyard, 2-year-old Carlos moves, like a sturdy, joyous missile, in rapid succession from blue elephant mini-car to tot-trampoline to skateboard to flinging a small knobbly ball and then a rainbow beachball.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 27, 2020

Cast Away With Tom Hanks currently in Australia fighting Covid-19, let’s remember him in shaggier times: on an enforced Robinson Crusoe training retreat, with only a beachball and do-it-yourself dentistry to amuse himself with.

From The Guardian • Mar. 25, 2020

Admittedly, he had the best of the conditions but he was seeing it like it was a beachball and playing like some idealized computer game version of Sobers, Bradman and Ramprakash combined.

From The Guardian • Aug. 7, 2015

And how did I feel about giving up the quest when a granny in sneakers, a human beachball named Woodrow, and over 3,990 others had made it to Katahdin?

From "A Walk in the Woods" by Bill Bryson