sleep around

1. 1.

   be sexually active with more than one partner

   “His wife bed hops”

   Synonymsbed-hopbedhop

   Broaderfornicate

Questions about sleep around

What does sleep around mean?

sleep around means "be sexually active with more than one partner".

What is another word for sleep around?

Close synonyms include bed-hop, bedhop. 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 sleep around a common word?

sleep around 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.