sex toy

See also: sextoy and sex-toy

English

Pronunciation

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Noun

sex toy (plural sex toys)

1. Any physical object or device that is primarily used to facilitate human sexual pleasure.

   Synonyms: joy toy, marital aid, sex aid, sexcessory (informal)

   Hyponyms: dildo, fleshlight, love doll, vibrator

   It is illegal to go to Mexico with more than three sex toys.

   • 2003, Hilda Hutcherson, “Sexual Enhancers”, in What Your Mother Never Told You about Sex, Perigee, →ISBN, page 169:

     As with all sex toys, be sure to use lots of lubricants and clean them regularly.

   • 2025 August 8, “Another WNBA game disrupted by sex toy thrown on court in Chicago”, in The Guardian‎^[1], →ISSN, archived from the original on 8 August 2025:

     A man was arrested Saturday in College Park, Georgia, after he was accused of throwing a sex toy on to the court during the Dream’s 29 July game with the Golden State Valkyries, according to a police report. The report said he threw another sex toy during the Dream’s game on Friday against the Phoenix Mercury.

2. (by extension) A person willing to provide sexual pleasure to another at their beckoning.

Translations

sex aid

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 情趣用品 (zh) (qíngqù yòngpǐn), 性玩具 (zh) (xìngwánjù), 性具 (zh) (xìngjù)

• Dutch: seksspeeltje (nl) n
• Esperanto: erotika helpilo
• Finnish: seksilelu (fi)
• French: sextoy (fr) m, jouet sexuel m
• German: Sexspielzeug (de) n
• Greek: ερωτικό βοήθημα n (erotikó voḯthima)
• Hebrew: אביזר מין m (avizár min)
• Hungarian: nemi játékszer, nemi segédeszköz
• Icelandic: kynlífsleikfang (is)
• Irish: bréagán gnéis m
• Italian: giocattolo sessuale m
• Japanese: 性具 (ja) (せいぐ, seigu), 大人のおもちゃ (ja) (おとなのおもちゃ, otona no omocha), 淫具 (ja) (いんぐ, ingu)
• Korean: 자위기구(自慰器具) (jawigigu)
• Norwegian: sexleketøy n
• Portuguese: brinquedo sexual (pt) m
• Russian: сексуа́льная игру́шка f (sɛksuálʹnaja igrúška), секс-игру́шка (ru) f (sɛks-igrúška)
• Spanish: juguete sexual m
• Swedish: sexleksak (sv) c
• Turkish: seks oyuncağı
• Vietnamese: công cụ hỗ trợ tình dục
• Welsh: tegan rhyw (cy) m