beach ball

noun

1. a large light brightly coloured ball for playing with on a beach

Example Sentences

Schulz introduced him by having Franklin return Charlie Brown’s wayward beach ball one day by the sea.

From Seattle Times

He said they ranged in size from "maybe the size of a dinner plate to maybe a beach ball - there were really some good-sized ones".

From BBC

“Imagine a beach ball filled with fluid in your stomach all the time,” said Dr. Joseph Cleveland, Jr., a cardiothoracic surgeon at the University of Colorado School of Medicine.

From New York Times

The scientists wanted to know if, in the instant after collision, the swirling momentum of the quark-gluon soup could cause phi mesons to spin along with it, like a beach ball in a whirlpool.

From Scientific American

An orb-shaped device about the size of a beach ball was mounted on the fuselage, bristling with sensors and antennas.

From Washington Post