What do people classify as beach, near a large body of water near an ocean or something around a lake?

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I don’t live near an ocean but the body of water I live next to is a lake so when summer comes I say I am going to a beach and I believe all body of water as long as not man made or a man made pond does come from the ocean and is a lake then close to land is a beach.

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A beach can be anywhere land meets water.

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I definitely think that a beach can be around any body of water, regardless of its size. Beaches near oceans may be more popularly accepted, especially if you grew up in Florida, but I think a beach can be near any body of water and still hold that classification.

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A beach to me is a sandy area along the shore of a body of water.

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For the first 20 years of my life I lived in houses next to lakes. I lived on the shore of the lakes. I did not live on a beach because there was no sloping sandy or rocky area – we built a pier from the dirt out into the lake. Walking directly from the shore involved squishing through a couple of inches of mud under the water. At the last house, the neighbor on one side brought in a bunch of sand and made a small beach and the city built sandy sloping beaches at a big rec area at the end of the lake and at smaller ones at various points along the shore. There you could walk on the sand into the water.
Around an ocean with tides and currents and along a river with currents, mud floors to the water are far more unlikely and sand is deposited in patterns making the beaches we are familiar with. Beaches in England are pebbles and along the Pacific Ocean between LA and San Francisco there are no beaches because the rocks/mountains go straight down into the ocean.