Meanings
present singular third person goes to bed · participle present going to bed · past went to bed · participle past gone to bed
- To lie down to sleep, put oneself in one's bed.
I think I'll just go to bed, it's bedtime for me.
2 more examples
I go to sleep at the same hour every night, no matter when I go to bed.
Irregular bedtimes may disrupt healthy brain development in young children, according to a study of intelligence and sleeping habits. ¶ Going to bed at a different time each night affected girls more than boys, but both fared worse on mental tasks than children who had a set bedtime, researchers found.
2013 July 19, Ian Sample, “Irregular bedtimes may affect children's brains”, in The Guardian Weekly, volume 189, number 6, page 34Synonyms: hit the sack, hit the hay, hit the rack
- euphemisticTo have sex; to go to have sex.
Has he ever been to bed with her?
Synonyms: couch a hogshead, go to sleep, bed down, hit the hay, hit the sack, retire, seek one's virtuous couch, turn in
- mediaOf a newspaper: to finish being prepared for printing.
The army newspaper "went to bed" several hours before the civilian one, […]
1949, Max Eisen, How to Increase Daily Newspaper Circulation, page 431 more example
So gone are the days when a Vanguard reporter who had gone to cover an assignment in Victoria Island may not get to his office at Kirikiri before the newspaper went to bed because the reporter was held back by the usual Lagos traffic jam.
2007, Ikechukwu Enoch Nwosu, E. O. Soola, Communication in Global, ICTs and Ecosystem Perspectives, page 238
Synonyms & antonyms
verbTo lie down to sleep, put oneself in one's bed.
verbTo have sex; to go to have sex.
More synonyms by meaning
verbprepare for sleep
Synonym sets from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.
Origin
Already attested in Old English as tō bedde gān.
Full word history & related roots →Translations
Basque ohera joan
- ohera joanto lie down to sleep
Bulgarian лягам си
- лягам си (ljagam si)to lie down to sleep
Catalan colgar-se, allitar-se
- colgar-seto lie down to sleep
- allitar-seto lie down to sleep
- gitar-seto lie down to sleep
Chinese Mandarin 上床, 睡覺 /睡觉
- 上床 (shàngchuáng)to lie down to sleep
- 睡覺 /睡觉 (shuìjiào)to lie down to sleep
- 就寢 /就寝 (jiùqǐn)to lie down to sleep
Czech jít spát
- jít spátto lie down to sleep
Danish gå i seng
- gå i sengto lie down to sleep
Dutch naar bed gaan, gaan slapen
- naar bed gaanto lie down to sleep
- gaan slapento lie down to sleep
Esperanto enlitiĝi
- enlitiĝito lie down to sleep
Finnish mennä nukkumaan
- mennä nukkumaanto lie down to sleep
French se coucher, aller au lit
- se coucherto lie down to sleep
- aller au litto lie down to sleep
- aller se coucherto lie down to sleep
German ins Bett gehen, zu Bett gehen
- ins Bett gehento lie down to sleep
- zu Bett gehento lie down to sleep
- schlafen gehento lie down to sleep
Hungarian lefekszik, lefekszik aludni
- lefekszikto lie down to sleep
- lefekszik aludnito lie down to sleep
- aludni megyto lie down to sleep
- elmegy aludnito lie down to sleep
Icelandic leggjast til svefns, fara í háttinn
- leggjast til svefnsto lie down to sleep
- fara í háttinnto lie down to sleep
Irish téigh a chodladh
- téigh a chodladhto lie down to sleep
Italian coricarsi, andare a letto
- coricarsito lie down to sleep
- andare a lettoto lie down to sleep
- andare a dormireto lie down to sleep
Japanese 眠る, 臥せる
- 眠る (nemuru)to lie down to sleep
- 臥せる (fuseru)to lie down to sleep
Korean 취침하다, 자다
- 취침하다 (chwichimhada)to lie down to sleep
- 자다 (jada)to lie down to sleep
Latin cubitum ire, decumbo
- cubitum ireto lie down to sleep
- decumboto lie down to sleep
- discumboto lie down to sleep
Norwegian Bokmål gå til sengs, gå og legge seg
- gå til sengsto lie down to sleep
- gå og legge segto lie down to sleep
- legge segto lie down to sleep
Polish kłaść się do łóżka, położyć się do łóżka
- kłaść się do łóżkato lie down to sleep
- położyć się do łóżkato lie down to sleep
Portuguese ir para a cama, ir dormir
- ir para a camato lie down to sleep
- ir dormirto lie down to sleep
- deitar-seto lie down to sleep
- recolher-seto lie down to sleep
Romanian a se culca
- a se culcato lie down to sleep
Russian ложи́ться спать, лечь спать
- ложи́ться спать (ložítʹsja spatʹ)to lie down to sleep
- лечь спать (lečʹ spatʹ)to lie down to sleep
Scottish Gaelic rach mu thàmh
- rach mu thàmhto lie down to sleep
Spanish acostarse, ensobrarse
- acostarseto lie down to sleep
- ensobrarseto lie down to sleep
- irse a la camato lie down to sleep
- empiltrarseto lie down to sleep
- planchar la orejato lie down to sleep
Swedish gå och lägga sig, lägga sig
- gå och lägga sigto lie down to sleep
- lägga sigto lie down to sleep
- gå till sängsto lie down to sleep
Turkish yatağa yatmak, yatmak
- yatağa yatmakto lie down to sleep
- yatmakto lie down to sleep
Ukrainian ляга́ти спа́ти, лягти́ спа́ти
- ляга́ти спа́ти (ljaháty spáty)to lie down to sleep
- лягти́ спа́ти (ljahtý spáty)to lie down to sleep
Vietnamese đi ngủ
- đi ngủto lie down to sleep
Cite this entry
go to bed. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 5, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/go%20to%20bed
“go to bed.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/go%20to%20bed. Accessed November 5, 2026.
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