Meaning : An activity that diverts or amuses or stimulates.
Example :
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.
Synonyms : recreation
Meaning : A turning aside (of your course or attention or concern).
Example :
A diversion from the main highway.
A digression into irrelevant details.
A deflection from his goal.
Synonyms : deflection, deflexion, deviation, digression, divagation
Translation in other languages :
Meaning : An attack calculated to draw enemy defense away from the point of the principal attack.
Synonyms : diversionary attack