One of the mysteries of the English language finally explained.
Synonyms of intercourse in English:
intercourse
See definition of intercourse
noun
1‘the market was an important focus of social intercourse’
dealings, relations, relationships, association, connections, contact, interchange, communication, intercommunication, communion, correspondence, negotiations, bargaining, transactions, proceedings
trade, trading, business, commerce, traffic, trafficking
informal truck, doings
2‘she did not consent to intercourse with him’
sexual intercourse, sex, lovemaking, making love, sex act, act of love, sexual relations, intimate relations, intimacy, coupling, mating, going to bed with someone, sleeping with someone
informal nooky
British informal bonking, rumpy pumpy, a bit of the other, how's your father
South African informal pata-pata
vulgar slang screwing, fucking
British vulgar slang shagging
formal coitus, coition, copulation
formal fornication
archaic carnal knowledge, congress, sexual congress, commerce