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    SEXUAL ACTIVITY

    Pronunciation (US): Play  (GB): Play

     I. (noun) 

    Sense 1

    Meaning:

    Activities associated with sexual intercourseplay

    Example:

    they had sex in the back seat

    Synonyms:

    sex; sex activity; sexual activity; sexual practice

    Classified under:

    Nouns denoting acts or actions

    Hypernyms ("sexual activity" is a kind of...):

    activity; bodily function; bodily process; body process (an organic process that takes place in the body)

    Attribute:

    heterosexual (sexually attracted to members of the opposite sex)

    homosexual (sexually attracted to members of your own sex)

    Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "sexual activity"):

    bestiality; sodomy; zooerastia; zooerasty (sexual activity between a person and an animal)

    heterosexualism; heterosexuality; straightness (a sexual attraction to (or sexual relations with) persons of the opposite sex)

    bisexuality (sexual activity with both men and women)

    gayness; homoeroticism; homosexualism; homosexuality; queerness (a sexual attraction to (or sexual relations with) persons of the same sex)

    lechery (unrestrained indulgence in sexual activity)

    promiscuity; promiscuousness; sleeping around (indulging in promiscuous (casual and indiscriminate) sexual relations)

    autoeroticism; autoerotism (using you own body as a sexual object)

    perversion; sexual perversion (an aberrant sexual practice)

    arousal; foreplay; stimulation (mutual sexual fondling prior to sexual intercourse)

    breeding; facts of life; procreation; reproduction (the sexual activity of conceiving and bearing offspring)

    conjugation; coupling; mating; pairing; sexual union; union (the act of pairing a male and female for reproductive purposes)

    carnal abuse (any lascivious contact by an adult with the sexual organs of a child (especially not involving sexual intercourse))

    love; love life; lovemaking; making love; sexual love (sexual activities (often including sexual intercourse) between two people)

    pleasure (sexual gratification)

    carnal knowledge; coition; coitus; copulation; intercourse; relation; sex act; sexual congress; sexual intercourse; sexual relation (sexual activity between individuals, especially the insertion of a man's penis into a woman's vagina until orgasm and ejaculation occur)

    conception (the act of becoming pregnant; fertilization of an ovum by a spermatozoon)

    safe sex (sexual activity (especially sexual intercourse) with the use of measures (such as latex condoms) to avoid the transmission of disease (especially AIDS))

    outercourse (sexual stimulation without vaginal penetration)

    bondage (sexual practice that involves physically restraining (by cords or handcuffs) one of the partners)

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