muscle beach

American  

noun

1. a beach where young men display their muscles, engage in calisthenics, etc.

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Example Sentences

The smash-up of the fantastical and the familiar is disorienting and gets even stranger when the reckless kids start to whoop like they’re on Muscle Beach.

From Los Angeles Times

Also on the agenda: moving the city’s homeless shelter out of downtown; making a one-time $3.5-million investment to address fraying sidewalks and streets and freshen up trees and trash cans; funding monthly events at the Third Street Promenade to attract crowds; creating a large-scale “Santa Monica Music Festival” next year; upgrading restrooms near the pier and Muscle Beach; and increasing operating days for libraries.

From Los Angeles Times

Meals tried hang-gliding at Dockweiler Beach, fencing on the Santa Monica border, rock climbing in Chatsworth, boxing and go-kart racing in Sylmar, weightlifting at Muscle Beach in Venice.

From Los Angeles Times

While shooting the 1973 movie “The Sting,” Robert Redford and Paul Newman would toss a football around on the Santa Monica Pier, which led Redford to write an introduction to this 176-page tribute by James Harris, the official pier historian; there’s also an afterword from Arnold Schwarzenegger, whose affinity for the pier dates back to his strongman days at Muscle Beach.

From Los Angeles Times

Just when attendees who’ve scaled certain machines think they have the best vantage point, Muscle Beach begins performing from a second drum set on top of another row of machines.

From Los Angeles Times