Synonyms for physical contact
phys·i·cal con·tact

Princeton's WordNet

1. contact, physical contactnoun

   the act of touching physically

   "her fingers came in contact with the light switch"

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1. • Touch

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1. Brandon Messina:

   Trevor Milton strongly denies these false allegations, at no point in Trevor Milton life has Trevor Milton ever engaged in any inappropriate physical contact with anyone.

2. Lisa Damour:

   The challenge is that children, and then especially adolescents, get a lot of comfort from the physical contact with their peers.

3. Sheriff Rick Singleton:

   As far as we know that was the earliest physical contact they had.

4. Benjamin Hooks:

   There are a lot of ways an oppressed people can rise. One way to rise is to study, to be smarter than your oppressor. The concept of rising against oppression through physical contact is stupid and self-defeating. It exalts brawn over brain. And the most enduring contributions made to civilization have not been made by brawn, they have been made by brain.

5. Sheldon Cohen:

   This suggests that being hugged by a trusted person may act as an effective means of conveying support and that increasing the frequency of hugs might be an effective means of reducing the deleterious effects of stress, the apparent protective effect of hugs may be attributable to the physical contact itself or to hugging being a behavioral indicator of support and intimacy.