have sex

Questions about have sex

What does have sex mean?

have sex means "have sexual intercourse with".

What is another word for have sex?

Close synonyms include sleep together, roll in the hay, love, make out, make love. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is have sex a common word?

have sex is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.