1. 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"
2. 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"
3. an attack calculated to draw enemy defense away from the point of the principal attack