tanning vs beating

tanning and beating both are nouns.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
tanning	Yes	No	No	No
beating	Yes	No	No	No

As nouns, beating is a hypernym of tanning; that is, beating is a word with a broader meaning than tanning:

Other hypernyms of tanning include drubbing, lacing, licking, thrashing, trouncing, whacking.

tanning (noun)	beating (noun)
making leather from rawhide	the act of inflicting corporal punishment with repeated blows
beating with a whip or strap or rope as a form of punishment	the act of overcoming or outdoing
process in which skin pigmentation darkens as a result of exposure to ultraviolet light