diversion :: Lexipedia - Where words have meaning

n. an attack calculated to draw enemy defense away from the point of the principal attack

n. an activity that diverts or amuses or stimulates; "scuba diving is provided as a diversion for tourists"; "for recreation he wrote poetry and solved crossword puzzles"; "drug abuse is often regarded as a form of recreation"

diversion, deviation, digression, deflection, deflexion, divagation

n. a turning aside (of your course or attention or concern); "a diversion from the main highway"; "a digression into irrelevant details"; "a deflection from his goal"

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beguilement, distraction

n. an entertainment that provokes pleased interest and distracts you from worries and vexations

avocation, by-line, hobby, pursuit, sideline, spare-time activity

n. an auxiliary activity

leisure

n. freedom to choose a pastime or enjoyable activity; "he lacked the leisure for golf"

relaxation, relaxation method

n. a method of solving simultaneous equations by guessing a solution and then reducing the errors that result by successive approximations until all the errors are less than some specified amount

change

n. the action of changing something; "the change of government had no impact on the economy"; "his change on abortion cost him the election"

detour, roundabout way

n. a roundabout road (especially one that is used temporarily while a main route is blocked)

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labor, labour, toil

n. productive work (especially physical work done for wages); "his labor did not require a great deal of skill"

work

n. activity directed toward making or doing something; "she checked several points needing further work"

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