English Dictionary

skinship

noun

(particularly Japan, South Korea) Bonding through physical (touch, skin-to-skin) contact; particularly between family members, relatives and loved ones. / Spending time together naked for social bonding.

Skinship is a common practice in Japan.

意味（1）

(particularly Japan, South Korea) Bonding through physical (touch, skin-to-skin) contact; particularly between family members, relatives and loved ones.

In Mexico, interdependence among people in emphasized and expressed through cosleeping and skinship. … A similar type of skinship also exists throughout Mexico—all one had to do is look at the way people walk or sit together. … women are always patting touching ...

意味（2）

Spending time together naked for social bonding.

This relationship of parents to children is especially enhanced by bathing together—commonly known as skinship (sukinshippu). Other groups, from businessmen or to neighboring housewives to hikers and classmates, often seek to increase the strength of a relationship by engaging in hadaka no tsukiai at a sentō, health center, or onsen.