sexual activity

Questions about sexual activity

What does sexual activity mean?

sexual activity means "activities associated with sexual intercourse".

What is another word for sexual activity?

Close synonyms include sexual practice, sex, sex activity. 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 sexual activity a common word?

sexual activity is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.