lovemaking
/ˈlʌvmeɪkɪŋ
/noun [mass noun]
1Sexual activity, especially sexual intercourse.When things were good between them, the line usually led to passionate foreplay followed by intense lovemaking....
- We had 2.5 wonderful days of lovemaking, talking, sleeping in each other's arms, showers together, and then I could feel him withdrawing over the last day.
- The lovemaking was so soulful, we had such a beautiful connection.
Synonyms
sexual intercourse, sex, intercourse, making love, sexual relations, sex act, act of love, intimate relations, intimacy, sexual union, coupling, sexual congress, congress, mating, going to bed with someone, sleeping with someone
informal it, the other, nooky, rumpy pumpy
British informal bonking, how's your father
vulgar slang fucking, screwing
British vulgar slang shagging
formal coitus, coition, copulation
formal fornication
archaic carnal knowledge
2 archaic Courtship.