beach ball

noun

: a large inflated ball for use at the beach

Examples of beach ball in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web

Another traveler recommended packing a beach ball, which can be partially inflated and double as a pillow on an airplane, and then be used for a fun activity on the beach. —Michael Cappetta, Travel + Leisure, 25 Apr. 2025

Darren Bent benefited from seaside paraphernalia when his shot deflected in off a beach ball during Sunderland’s 1-0 victory against Liverpool in 2009. —Conor O'Neill, New York Times, 28 Apr. 2025

The audience—both the fictional one upstate and the real one in Manhattan—soon slips into a world where human-scale beach balls and painter’s buckets become a playground for physical investigation, where the tragicomedy of real life slips in through the cracks. —Laura Regensdorf, Vogue, 25 Apr. 2025

The ‘Devil Frog’ Was A Predator Among Dinosaurs Roughly the size of a beach ball, Beelzebufo ampinga was fundamentally more formidable than its modern cousins. —Scott Travers, Forbes.com, 11 Apr. 2025

Word History

First Known Use

1921, in the meaning defined above

Rhymes for beach ball

• aldol
• armhole
• atoll
• awol
• backhaul
• banal
• baseball
• befall
• cabal
• catchall
• cecal
• centrale