The invention provides a communication method and device for a wireless local area network and a communication terminal. The communication method for the wireless local area network comprises a step of receiving a first type of wake-up frames, wherein the first type of wake-up frames include timing synchronization functions wherein the timing synchronization functions in the first type of wake-upframes are used for indicating time synchronization with associated access point equipment, and the timing synchronization functions in the first type of wake-up frames are consistent with the timingsynchronization functions in a beacon frame broadcast by the access point equipment. According to the technical scheme, work station equipment is prevented from being periodically awakened to monitorTIM (Traffic Indication Map) information in the beacon frame and being accessed to a channel in a competitive mode to obtain cached downlink data, the power consumption loss of the work station equipment is reduced, the frequency spectrum utilization efficiency is improved, and meanwhile, the time synchronization between the work station equipment and the access point equipment is realized.