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

[ Syn: recreation ]

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

[ Syn: deviation , digression , deflection , deflexion , divagation ]

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

[ Syn: diversionary attack ]