sexual intercourse

Questions about sexual intercourse

What does sexual intercourse mean?

sexual intercourse means "sexual activity between individuals, especially the insertion of a man's penis into a woman's vagina until orgasm and ejaculation occur".

What is another word for sexual intercourse?

Close synonyms include intercourse, sex act, copulation, coitus, coition. 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 intercourse a common word?

sexual intercourse 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.