sleeping around

1. 1.

   indulging in promiscuous (casual and indiscriminate) sexual relations

   Synonymspromiscuitypromiscuousness

   Broadersexual activity

   Narrowerone-night stand

Questions about sleeping around

What does sleeping around mean?

sleeping around means "indulging in promiscuous (casual and indiscriminate) sexual relations".

What is another word for sleeping around?

Close synonyms include promiscuity, promiscuousness. 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 sleeping around a common word?

sleeping 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.