· 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"
Synonym(s): recreation
Hypernym(s): activity
· 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"
Synonym(s): deviation, digression, deflection, deflexion, divagation
· an attack calculated to draw enemy defense away from the point of the principal attack
Synonym(s): diversionary_attack
Hypernym(s): attack, onslaught, onset, onrush