# What's the best term for doin' it? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [September 12, 2003, 11:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-best-term-for-doin-it/201177 "2003-09-12T11:53:43Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Largo62](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/45deac/32.png) [@Largo62](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Largo62)\ **Post date:** [September 12, 2003, 8:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-best-term-for-doin-it/201177/21 "2003-09-12T20:45:05Z")
Shtupping works in some quarters.;j ---
**Author:** ![handy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/b5a626/32.png) [@handy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/handy)\ **Post date:** [September 12, 2003, 8:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-best-term-for-doin-it/201177/22 "2003-09-12T20:53:40Z")
Wrestling. What were you & dad doing yesterday? “wrestling” Dunno about anything in sign language that looks gentle. Sex signs in sign language look very funny. ---
**Author:** ![Stainz](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ecd19e/32.png) [@Stainz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Stainz)\ **Post date:** [September 12, 2003, 9:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-best-term-for-doin-it/201177/23 "2003-09-12T21:07:18Z")
We call it “knitting” … ! ---
**Author:** ![Qburn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/bc79bd/32.png) [@Qburn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Qburn)\ **Post date:** [September 12, 2003, 9:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-best-term-for-doin-it/201177/24 "2003-09-12T21:28:07Z")
Bippy’s post reminded me of the ‘horizontal bop’ ---
**Author:** ![Bullwinkle](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/8491ac/32.png) [@Bullwinkle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bullwinkle)\ **Post date:** [September 12, 2003, 10:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-best-term-for-doin-it/201177/25 "2003-09-12T22:05:56Z")
Our duty to the Party ---
**Author:** ![Spellbound](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/41988e/32.png) [@Spellbound](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spellbound)\ **Post date:** [September 12, 2003, 10:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-best-term-for-doin-it/201177/26 "2003-09-12T22:10:10Z")
conjugal visitation. And don’t take that too seriously… neither of us are incarcerated… just miles apart. ---
**Author:** ![Lennon\_Lives](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/f04885/32.png) [@Lennon\_Lives](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lennon_Lives)\ **Post date:** [September 12, 2003, 10:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-best-term-for-doin-it/201177/27 "2003-09-12T22:46:39Z")
From “Cheers” The naked pretzel I always loved that way to describe “it”. LL ---
**Author:** ![Horseflesh](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/horseflesh/32/7502_2.png) [@Horseflesh](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Horseflesh)\ **Post date:** [September 12, 2003, 11:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-best-term-for-doin-it/201177/28 "2003-09-12T23:10:16Z")
I’ve used ‘horizontal mambo’, ‘banging’, ‘boinking’, and ‘knockin boots’. My wife and I usually use the term ‘horking’. A couple from Joe Bob Briggs: Aardvarking Making the sign of the double-breasted Nehru jacket (if-you-know-what-I-mean-and-I-think-you-do) ---
**Author:** ![Nenya\_Elizabeth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/ea5d25/32.png) [@Nenya\_Elizabeth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nenya_Elizabeth)\ **Post date:** [September 12, 2003, 11:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-best-term-for-doin-it/201177/29 "2003-09-12T23:28:08Z")
Well, the thread title below this one at the moment says: “Can anyone recommend a good mattress?” 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Giraffe](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/giraffe/32/129_2.png) [@Giraffe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Giraffe)\ **Post date:** [September 12, 2003, 11:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-best-term-for-doin-it/201177/30 "2003-09-12T23:43:34Z")
Bah! All of these suggestions are simply too inaccurate. Friend: “Whaddya do last night, **bienville**?” **bienville** : “My wife and I were intimate.” Friend: “Ah.” Friend has no idea what you’re talking about. Contrast this with some accuracy: Friend: “Whaddya do last night, **bienville**?” **bienville** : “My wife and I got naked, she gave me a blow job and then I went down on her. We followed this with fucking, in a variety of positions, before finishing with some ass-fucking.” Friend: “Wow! Sounds great!” See how much better that sounds? 😃 ---
**Author:** ![verbenabeast](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/c4cdca/32.png) [@verbenabeast](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/verbenabeast)\ **Post date:** [September 13, 2003, 12:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-best-term-for-doin-it/201177/31 "2003-09-13T00:04:52Z")
“Pile up”… have an “all skate”… that usually refers to more than just a “couple” though… ---
**Author:** ![iampunha](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/74df32/32.png) [@iampunha](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/iampunha)\ **Post date:** [September 13, 2003, 5:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-best-term-for-doin-it/201177/32 "2003-09-13T05:11:52Z")
One term I’ve seen (though the origin wasn’t provided) is “discussing Uganda”. Again, NFC where it came from. In the early stages of visiting **fizzy** , we would (most of the time) retire to her bedroom when we wished to engaged in the aforementioned activity. Hence “going upstairs” became synonymous with sex. “Playtime” was also used. Funny story, actually. She got a chess set for Christmas because she liked to play and we played a bit. The set was in her room, so sometimes she’d ask me or I’d ask her and we’d go upstairs and play. But sometimes she’d be halfway up the stairs and she’d ask me. Eventually I got to figuring out if we were going to be playing chess with the glass pieces or … well, “bedroom chess” doesn’t really make much sense. But I think you get the picture;) [sub]Her mother must have thought we were practicing for the chess tour…[/sub] ---
**Author:** ![Zenster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/cdc98d/32.png) [@Zenster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zenster)\ **Post date:** [September 13, 2003, 5:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-best-term-for-doin-it/201177/33 "2003-09-13T05:24:38Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Horseflesh \* > I’ve used ‘horizontal mambo’, ‘banging’, ‘boinking’, and ‘knockin boots’. My wife and I usually use the term ‘horking’. > > A couple from Joe Bob Briggs: > > Aardvarking > > Making the sign of the double-breasted Nehru jacket (if-you-know-what-I-mean-and-I-think-you-do) Finally, a Joe Bob Briggs fan! That man is one of my favorite writers. I may just have to start a Cafe Society thread about this particular specimen of journalistic weirdness. ---
**Author:** ![generica](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/c4cdca/32.png) [@generica](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/generica)\ **Post date:** [September 13, 2003, 5:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-best-term-for-doin-it/201177/34 "2003-09-13T05:29:49Z")
I’ve always been particularly fond of “fighting crime”. “So, what are you two up to tonight?” “Gonna stay home, fight some crime.” (Sadly I didn’t think of this myself, it’s from a Douglas Copeland book, I think _Shampoo Planet_.) ---
**Author:** ![SanguineSpider](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e9a140/32.png) [@SanguineSpider](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SanguineSpider)\ **Post date:** [September 13, 2003, 5:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-best-term-for-doin-it/201177/35 "2003-09-13T05:39:03Z")
Porkin’, makin’ bacon, makin’ babies, rutting (I am oddly exhilarated by this one… hmmm), mounting (this too makes my tinglies tingle), slip-n-slide (NFCWIGI=no f’n clue where I got it), rockin-the-van, buckin-the-bronco, double-lap dance\*, (\*this came from a newly arrived 18 year old fella who was eager to commence with the love-makin’… NOT with me! Just in general. He walked into my porn store… NOT mine, I worked there… and was just the eager beaver for sex with any female willing, and I suspected, a newly loyal customer of the local strip clubs–hence the lap dance phrasing… I am smart like that) hiding-the-mountie (don’t ask, lol), squeezin-the-Charmin (DON’T ASK, I said!), and screwing-in-the-lightbulb. There… now you all feel complete! You had me at hello… ---
**Author:** ![SunTzu2U](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/b5a626/32.png) [@SunTzu2U](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SunTzu2U)\ **Post date:** [September 13, 2003, 7:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-best-term-for-doin-it/201177/36 "2003-09-13T07:38:45Z")
My wife and I just have hall sex. When we pass each other in the hall we say FU! ---
**Author:** ![betenoir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/258eb7/32.png) [@betenoir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/betenoir)\ **Post date:** [September 13, 2003, 7:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-best-term-for-doin-it/201177/37 "2003-09-13T07:50:14Z")
I really don’t see what’s wrong with “fucking”. ---
**Author:** ![CanvasShoes](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/74df32/32.png) [@CanvasShoes](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CanvasShoes)\ **Post date:** [September 13, 2003, 7:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-best-term-for-doin-it/201177/38 "2003-09-13T07:59:22Z")
We say “so whatcha dOin?”. It’s sort of a joke from my being too shy to, in my boyfriend’s words, “just SAY it already”. And over the years HE picked it up too, kind of funny and ironic, since he USED to use it to “tease me into” using more raw language, but now he’s using the “cuter” more aesthetic sounding version 😃 ---
**Author:** ![ccwaterback](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/df705f/32.png) [@ccwaterback](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ccwaterback)\ **Post date:** [September 13, 2003, 8:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-best-term-for-doin-it/201177/39 "2003-09-13T08:12:07Z")
hookin’ up squeezin’ grapes rubber neckin’ sharin’ grins ---
**Author:** ![Annie-Xmas](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ecc23a/32.png) [@Annie-Xmas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Annie-Xmas)\ **Post date:** [September 13, 2003, 12:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-best-term-for-doin-it/201177/40 "2003-09-13T12:58:26Z")
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