Word.ws English Dictionary

sleeping around

sleeping around is the present participle and gerund of sleep around.

Meaning of sleep around

Verb

sleep around (third-person singular simple present sleeps around, present participle sleeping around, simple past and past participle slept around)

  1. (euphemistic, informal) Synonym of fuck around: to sleep with numerous partners.
    • Sleeping around sleeping around / What will the neighbors say / Sleeping around all over town / What will the neighbors say2006, “Sleepin' Around”, in Rather Ripped, performed by Sonic Youth
    Synonyms:
    fuck around

Questions about sleeping around

What is sleeping around the present participle and gerund of?
Sleeping around is the present participle and gerund of sleep around.

Words near sleeping around in the dictionary

  1. sleepily
  2. sleepiness
  3. sleepinesses
  4. sleeping
  5. sleeping a wink
  6. sleeping around
  7. sleeping at the switch
  8. sleeping bag
  9. sleeping bags
  10. sleeping barber problem
  11. sleeping barber problems

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: sleeping around (page history and authors); sleep around (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

Last updated:

Cite this entry: “sleeping around.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/sleeping_around. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.