sunbathe

«sunbathe» in Mova's school dictionary: to sit or lie in the sunshine, usually to relax or to get… — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 1 sentence of Mova's corpora that use it.

part of speech

verb (sunbathe, sunbathes, sunbathed, sunbathing)

meaning for a pupil

To sunbathe is to sit or lie in the sunshine, usually to relax or to get a tan. tree →

sense in the lessons

In health and safety lessons, sunbathing is linked to sun safety: too much sun burns skin and can cause skin cancer later, so people use sunscreen, a hat and shade («Slip, Slop, Slap» in Australia and New Zealand). In everyday life people sunbathe at the beach, by the pool or in the garden. Animals such as lizards «sunbathe» (bask) to warm their bodies.

examples

• Mum likes to sunbathe by the pool. tree →
• Don't sunbathe in the middle of the day. tree →
• We sunbathed on the beach after swimming. tree →
• Put on sunscreen before you sunbathe. tree →
• The lizard was sunbathing on a warm rock. tree →
• Sunbathing too long can give you sunburn. tree →
• Seals sunbathe on the rocks. tree →

note

Past: sunbathed. Noun: sunbathing. Said «SUN-bayth» (the -athe like «bathe», not «bath»). Myth: you can't burn on a cloudy day — you can, UV rays pass through clouds.

In the corpora

• Ring-tailed lemurs sunbathe in the morning to warm up, and wild lemurs live only on Madagascar.

Trees and pragmatics

Every meaning and example of «sunbathe» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.