sexual activity vs intercourse

intercourse vs sexual activity

sexual activity and intercourse both are nouns.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
sexual activity	Yes	No	No	No
intercourse	Yes	No	No	No

As nouns, intercourse is a hyponym of sexual activity; that is, intercourse is a word with a more specific, narrower meaning than sexual activity:

sexual activity: activities associated with sexual intercourse
intercourse: sexual activity between individuals, especially the insertion of a man's penis into a woman's vagina until orgasm and ejaculation occur

Other hyponyms of sexual activity include bondage, outercourse, safe sex, conception, carnal knowledge, coition, coitus, copulation, relation, sex act, sexual congress, sexual intercourse, sexual relation, pleasure, love, love life, lovemaking, making love, sexual love, carnal abuse, conjugation, coupling, mating, pairing, sexual union, union, breeding, facts of life, procreation, reproduction, arousal, foreplay, stimulation, perversion, sexual perversion, autoeroticism, autoerotism, promiscuity, promiscuousness, sleeping around, lechery, gayness, homoeroticism, homosexualism, homosexuality, queerness, bisexuality, heterosexualism, heterosexuality, straightness, bestiality, sodomy, zooerastia, zooerasty, blowbang.

sexual activity (noun)	intercourse (noun)
activities associated with sexual intercourse	sexual activity between individuals, especially the insertion of a man's penis into a woman's vagina until orgasm and ejaculation occur
	communication between individuals

Difference between sexual activity and intercourse

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