go to sleep
Enter unconscious rest
Go to sleep means to fall asleep or transition from wakefulness to sleep.
It's the standard way to describe this action: I usually go to sleep around eleven.
Parents tell children to go to sleep.
The phrase also works as a command or suggestion: Go to sleep—you have an early morning.
When a limb goes to sleep, it becomes numb from restricted blood flow.
- turn inSubmit or sleep
- hit the hayGo to sleep, informally
- fall asleepBegin sleeping
- go to bedCease activity for sleep
- sack outSleep, slangily
drift off · retire · conk out · out like a light · bedtime · nod off · catch some Zs · drop off · crash out · dead to the world · lights out · siesta · forty winks · power nap · snooze · bed down · tuck in · slumber
go to sleepwake up
Become conscious again
awaken · stay awake · rouse · come to · stir
go to sleepspring into action
Begin acting immediately
get moving · get up · rise · keep going · start the day
sleep, gone, sleepy, sleeping, goes, slept, sleeper, sleeps, sleepiness