sexual activity
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- noun
- /ˈsɛkʃuəl ækˈtɪvɪti/
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actividad sexual
- Seventy of these couples reported at least one sexual activity session during their participation in the study.
- engage in sexual activity
- adolescent sexual activity
- sexual activity with a partner
Did you have any sexual activity in jail?
- Did you have any sexual activity in jail?
- So what is your favorite sexual activity?
- And deciding not to speak for a year and abstain from all sexual activity, You.
- Did you see any research about post pandemic or during pandemic sexual activity?
- So they want to engage in the sexual activity but not incur the social costs of that that being known.
- Now, sex and sexual activity is actually a pretty small piece, pretty small slice of the intimacy pie.
- So this drop in sexual activity, this rise in women in Japan wanting to marry themselves, did you see that?
Examples
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Half the participants expressed positive attitudes toward their sexual activity, 20% were negative, and the rest were noncommittal.
Academic text (1999) -
Parent-adolescent communication has also been shown to be an important factor in predicting adolescent sexual activity.
Academic text (2008) -
OK What would you say that your favorite sexual activity might be?
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Did you have any sexual activity in jail?
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The article had suggested that there was a great deal of sexual activity among these citizens.
Fiction book (1990) -
If it is accepted, then sexual activity can begin or continue.
Academic text (1999) -
Do you ever engage in sexual activity with them?
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How old were you when you first engaged in sexual activity with a partner?
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Lack of reproductive health services makes sexual activity more risky for both sexes, but particularly for women.
Academic text (1994) -
Many teenagers feel pressured to engage in sexual activity before they are ready.
Synonyms
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Physical contact with another person for pleasure or to make a baby
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Sex between people to show love or affection
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Sex that involves a man's penis entering a woman's vagina
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Sex between people, for example in a romantic or casual relationship
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An act in which one person's penis enters another person's vagina
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Sexual activity between people, often intercourse
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An action people do for sexual pleasure, often with another person
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To have sex with someone
Private actions between people that involve touching for pleasure
Antonyms
How Sexual
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Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning is directly and transparently derived from combining 'sexual' (pertaining to sex) with 'activity' (an action or behavior); a B1 learner who knows both words can infer it refers to actions related to sex. This compositional pattern is cross-linguistically common and does not require idiomatic or metaphorical knowledge, so it is immediately comprehensible.
Etymology
Sexual activity joins sexual (about sex) and activity (something you do). Together they create the simple image of 'actions involving sex', so the phrase is a general, polite way to talk about sex acts.