go to bed verb3 •To lie down to sleep, put oneself in one's bed.I go to sleep at the same hour every night, no matter when I go to bed.I think I'll just go to bed, it's bedtime for me. •(euphemistic) To have sex; to go to have sex.Has he ever been to bed with her? •Of a newspaper: to finish being prepared for printing.The army newspaper "went to bed" several hours before the civilian one, […] — 1949 formswent to bed · gone to bed · going to bed · goes to bed