C21b

If you want to spend the day on the sand or the rocks at the edge of the ocean, you might say: “Let’s go ___________ today.”

This question is new; it was not asked in the 1965–70 survey.

TO THE BEACH9
BEACH2
TO THE COAST2
TO THE OCEAN2
“SWIMMING, TO THE BEACH, FISHING”1

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