sex play

noun

1. erotic caressing, especially as a prelude to sexual intercourse; foreplay.

Word History and Origins

Origin of sex play¹

First recorded in 1915–20

Example Sentences

How Dusty enables the president with her own spectacular accomplishments, which include both adventurous sex play and flax farming, I leave for Hough — who, like the play, is gleefully filthy — to reveal.

From New York Times

Buck, a wealthy white man who was active in gay and animal rights issues, exploited vulnerable men — most of them Black — paying them to come to his home to use drugs and engage in sex play, prosecutors said.

From Seattle Times

Think too about their shared interest in writing about how love and sex play out against a cultural backdrop — how romance is always a sort of performance shaped by both instinct and expectation, free will and tradition.

From Los Angeles Times

Or is he wrong to use our sex play to get back at me for things I do that annoy him?

From Slate

There is no reason to assume that the power dynamic of any sex play will spill elsewhere into your shared life with your partner.

From Slate