sunbathe
/ˈsʌnbeɪð
/verb [no object]
Sit or lie in the sun, especially to tan the skin: I didn’t do much apart from swim, sunbathe, and sleep (as noun sunbathing) it was too hot for sunbathing...
- The couple were staying at a secluded villa on a private island in the Seychelles which only admits paying guests and were snapped swimming and sunbathing.
- They were swimming and sunbathing on a private island.
- Or should we take the local bus and go into town, hit the beach for sunbathing, swimming, snorkelling or windsurfing?
Synonyms
sun oneself, bask, bake, get a tan, tan oneself, brown oneself;
Australian/New Zealand sunbake
informal catch some rays
Derivatives
sunbather
- And with these words last month, he dismissed a 1994 ban on nudism at a beach called Abrico, ruling that arguments of immorality did not apply to well-behaved naked sunbathers on the outskirts of merry Rio.
- Photographs of sunbathers back on the beaches in Thailand less than a week after the tsunami devastated some coastal communities caused more than raised eyebrows here, but alas, that appears to be human nature.
- Head down by the waterfront and take a stroll along the bay from the Castell dell'Ovo to the Mergellina district to view the fishermen with their catch of tonight's dinner, and sunbathers sprawled on the flat rocks soaking up the rays.