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Gangs said to go round looking for sex (6)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

cruise

'go round looking for sex' is the definition.
(to cruise is to find strangers to have sex with)

'gangs said' is the wordplay.
'gangs' becomes 'crews' ('crew' can be a synonym of 'gang').
'said' shows a homophone (sound like).
'crews' is a homophone of 'CRUISE'.

'to' is the link.

(Other definitions for cruise that I've seen before include "Tom, say" , "Shipboard holiday" , "Sail smoothly" , "Holiday afloat - Kidman's ex" , "Sail on a ship" .)

I've seen this clue in The Independent.
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