A diversion can be something that takes you off the course you are on, like a detour while you are traveling, or a game of tennis that takes you away from the stress of work.
The act of turning aside from any course, occupation, or object;
Noun
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"
Noun
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"
Noun
an attack calculated to draw enemy defense away from the point of the principal attack
n.
The act of turning aside from any course, occupation, or
object; as, the diversion of a stream from its channel; diversion of
the mind from business.
n.
That which diverts; that which turns or draws the mind
from care or study, and thus relaxes and amuses; sport; play; pastime;
as, the diversions of youth.
n.
The act of drawing the attention and force of an enemy
from the point where the principal attack is to be made; the attack,
alarm, or feint which diverts.
Diversion
Such productions of wit and humor as expose vice and folly, furnish useful diversion to readers.3.
The act of turning aside from any course, occupation, or object;
Usage Examples
I was never jailed. The fact is that I was arrested, but I went into a diversion programme, and by that time I'd already begun working in what was called anger management. It was a painful and awful moment.
It's such a diversion to be constantly thinking of better ways I can teach people math that my hunger is for that really, for new ways of translating the beauty of it.
The United States government first learned of the diversion of the W-88 nuclear warhead design in late 1995.
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Other Usage ExamplesGil Thorpe is a great diversion and is to book writing as poetry is to prose.
Politics is the diversion of trivial men who, when they succeed at it, become important in the eyes of more trivial men.
I believe the main solution is to gain the trust of Europe and America and to remove their concerns over the peaceful nature of our nuclear industry and to assure them that there will never be a diversion to military use.
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