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* ''VideoGame/FZero'' has Sand Ocean in every entry except ''Maximum Velocity'', although you don't actually traverse it in normal gameplay seeing as the tracks are hovering above it.

* ''TabletopGame/DarkSun'': The World of Athas is surrounded by the mysterious Sea of Silt, a massive seabed that was dried up by eons worth of dark magic. All who have attempted to cross it have been either killed, eaten or simply died of dehydration or heat stroke.

* ''[[WesternAnimation/LaBalladeDesDalton Lucky Luke: The Ballad of the Dalton]]'': The MagicalNativeAmerican Snake Feather lives in a completely sandy (and totally flat) desert.

* ''Literature/{{Dune}}'': [[Film/Dune1984 Both]] [[Film/Dune2021 film]] adaptations feature [[SingleBiomePlanet Arrakis]] as this, with the giant {{sand worm}}s roaming it. In the 2021 version more precisely, Duke Leto Atreides stresses out to his son Paul that the Atreides have [[LandSeaSky mastered the air and sea]] on Caladan, but that on Arrakis/Dune, they need the "desert power", i.e. an alliance with the Fremen who know how to survive and navigate through the [[DeathWorld hostile planet]]'s seas of sand like other world would require the same on sea, on land or in the sky.

* ''ComicBook/{{Lanfeust}}'': In ''Lanfeust of the Stars'', the desert in the planet Dezunge (also known as Abraxar) is a literal Sea of Sands, complete with sailing ships, whale-like creature, and islands.

-->-- '''Sandy Marton''', ''"Camel By Camel"''

->''Dune after dune in the ocean of yellow sand\\
Wind is blowing silently in the Sahara land''
-->-- '''Sandy Marton''', ''Camel By Camel''

Wind is blowing silently in the Sahara land

* ''Manga/{{Trigun}}'' is set on the planet Gunsmoke (No Man's Land in the manga), which is one huge expanse of desert.

* ''VideoGame/MonsterHunter'': The series usually averts this trope, as its deserts have various rocky structures, oasis, palms, and caves. In ''3'' and ''4'', however, there is a straight example in the Great Desert where the Jhen Mohran and its subspecies, Dahren Mohran, are fought, as most of the fight takes place in a "sea" of sand that the Mohrans move in as if it was water, and you chase it in a ship with sails.

This popular image, it should be noted, is in large part ArtisticLicenseGeography. While true sand seas, formally known as "ergs"[[note]]taken from the Arabic word for this sort of terrian[[/note]], do exist, hot deserts[[note]]"desert" technically refers to any barren environment with little precipitation, including polar ice caps[[/note]] are more likely to be rocky and hilly, with rock formations and loose gravel; even in true sandy deserts like the Sahara and the Arabian desert, extensive badlands and rock formations are fairly common. A helpful analogy is that large deserts contain ergs in the same way that a large wetlands region contains bodies of water; scatterings of lakes are more common than horizon-spanning inland seas, and the latter are noteworthy in large part because of their rarity.

** ''VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaSkywardSword'': The Lanayru region is a massive desert mostly covered in quicksand where Link will rapidly sink if he doesn't keep moving. The Lanayru Sand Sea is even worse, to the extent that it can't be safely crossed on foot, and instead must be traversed with a specially-equipped speedboat (however, this is not a case of SandIsWater- the boat is equipped with a device that projects a time travel field going back to the time the sea covered the area).

** ''VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaSkywardSword'': The Lanayru region is a massive desert mostly covered in quicksand where Link will rapidly sink if he doesn't keep moving. The Lanayru Sand Sea is even worse, to the extent that it can't be safely crossed on foot, and instead must be traversed with a specially-equipped speedboat.

* [[Film/Dune1984 Both]] [[Film/Dune2021 film]] adaptations of ''Literature/{{Dune}}'' naturally feature [[SingleBiomePlanet Arrakis]] as this, with the giant {{sand worm}}s roaming it. In the 2021 version more precisely, Duke Leto Atreides stresses out to his son Paul that the Atreides have [[LandSeaSky mastered the air and sea]] on Caladan, but that on Arrakis/Dune, they need the "desert power", i.e. an alliance with the Fremen who know how to survive and navigate through the [[DeathWorld hostile planet]]'s seas of sand like other world would require the same on sea, on land or in the sky.

* [[Film/Dune1984 Both]] [[Film/Dune2021 film]] adaptations of ''Literature/{{Dune}}'' naturally feature [[SingleBiomePlanet Arrakis]] as this, with the giant {{sand worm}}s roaming it.

This popular image, it should be noted, is in large part ArtisticLicenseGeography. While true sand seas, formally known as "ergs"[[note]]taken from the Arabic word for this sort of terrian[[/note]], do exist, hot deserts[[note]]"desert" technically refers to any barren environment with little precipitation, including polar ice caps[[/note]] are more likely to be rocky and hilly, with rock formations and loose gravel; even in true sandy like the Sahara and the Arabian desert, extensive badlands and rock formations are fairly common. A helpful analogy is that large deserts contain ergs in the same way that a large wetlands region contains bodies of water; scatterings of lakes are more common than horizon-spanning inland seas, and the latter are noteworthy in large part because of their rarity.