Diversion: alternatives and connections

The state or quality of being active; nimbleness; agility; vigorous action or operation; energy; active force; as, an increasing variety of human act…

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To fall upon with force; to assail, as with force and arms; to assault.

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A rushing onward.

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A rushing or setting upon; an attack; an assault; a storming; especially, the assault of an army.

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An attack; an onset; esp., a furious or murderous attack or assault.

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To cause to move upon a center, or as if upon a center; to give circular motion to; to cause to revolve; to cause to move round, either partially, wh…

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of Turn

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Deep thought; muse.

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Old; antique.

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The art of training by athletic exercises; the games and sports of athletes.

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of Bathe

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To leap or jump about in a sprightly manner; to cut capers; to skip; to spring; to prance; to dance.

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The act, process, or time of celebrating.

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To move with measured steps, or to a musical accompaniment; to go through, either alone or in company with others, with a regulated succession of mov…

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of Dance

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The act of receiving as host, or of amusing, admitting, or cherishing; hospitable reception; also, reception or treatment, in general.

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The fling of a horse, or ordinary kicking back of his heels; a gambol.

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To flee from and avoid; to be saved or exempt from; to shun; to obtain security from; as, to escape danger.

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Just or harmonious proportion or movement, as in the composition of a poem, an edifice, a painting, or a statue.

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The condition of being festive; social joy or exhilaration of spirits at an entertaintment; joyfulness; gayety.

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Full of levity; dancing, playing, or frisking about; full of pranks; frolicsome; gay; merry.

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Sport; merriment; frolicsome amusement.

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of Gamble

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A skipping or leaping about in frolic; a hop; a sportive prank.

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Crooked; lame; as, a game leg.

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of Game

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To engage the attention of; to awaken interest in; to excite emotion or passion in, in behalf of a person or thing; as, the subject did not interest…

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A deed; an action; a gest.

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Jesting; merriment.

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Something said for the sake of exciting a laugh; something witty or sportive (commonly indicating more of hilarity or humor than jest); a jest; a wit…

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A frolic; a jolly time.

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Gayety, with laughter; mirth; frolic.

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That which amuses, and serves to make time pass agreeably; sport; amusement; diversion.

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To engage in sport or lively recreation; to exercise for the sake of amusement; to frolic; to spot.

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To adorn in a showy manner; to dress or equip ostentatiously; -- often followed by up; as, to prank up the body. See Prink.

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The act of following or going after; esp., a following with haste, either for sport or in hostility; chase; prosecution; as, the pursuit of game; the…

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To play rudely and boisterously; to leap and frisk about in play.

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A leaping or jumping.

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That which diverts, and makes mirth; pastime; amusement.

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The Muse who presided over the choral song and the dance, especially the latter.

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An artifice or stratagem; a cunning contrivance; a sly procedure, usually with a dishonest intent; as, a trick in trade.

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To strain or move out of a straight line; to crook by straining; to make crooked; to curve; to make ready for use by drawing into a curve; as, to ben…

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To strain or move out of a straight line; to crook by straining; to make crooked; to curve; to make ready for use by drawing into a curve; as, to ben…

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To cause to turn aside; to bend; as, rays of light are often deflected.

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To cause to turn aside; to bend; as, rays of light are often deflected.

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Play; sport; pastime; diversion; playfulness.

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Play; sport; pastime; diversion; playfulness.

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The act of turning aside, or state of being turned aside; a turning from a right line or proper course; a bending, esp. downward; deviation.

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See Deflection.

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The act of deviating; a wandering from the way; variation from the common way, from an established rule, etc.; departure, as from the right course or…

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The act of digressing or deviating, esp. from the main subject of a discourse; hence, a part of a discourse deviating from its main design or subject.

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A wandering about or going astray; digression.

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The act of recreating, or the state of being recreated; refreshment of the strength and spirits after toil; amusement; diversion; sport; pastime.

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