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 BEACH | 9 |
| BEACH | 2 |
| TO THE COAST | 2 |
| TO THE OCEAN | 2 |
| “SWIMMING, TO THE BEACH, FISHING” | 1 |
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