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S: (n) turn, turning (the act of changing or reversing the direction of the course) "he took a turn to the right"

S: (n) diversion, deviation, digression, deflection, deflexion, divagation (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"
S: (n) right (a turn toward the side of the body that is on the south when the person is facing east) "take a right at the corner"
S: (n) left (a turn toward the side of the body that is on the north when the person is facing east) "take a left at the corner"
S: (n) kick turn (a standing turn made in skiing; one ski is raised to the vertical and pivoted backward to become parallel with the other ski but headed in the opposite direction and then the other ski is aligned with the first)
S: (n) stem turn, stem (a turn made in skiing; the back of one ski is forced outward and the other ski is brought parallel to it)
S: (n) telemark (a turn made in skiing; the outside ski is placed ahead and turned gradually inwards)
S: (n) swerve, swerving, veering (the act of turning aside suddenly)
S: (n) three-point turn (the act of turning a vehicle around in a limited space by moving in a series of back and forward arcs)
S: (n) version (manual turning of a fetus in the uterus (usually to aid delivery))

S: (v) swerve, sheer, curve, trend, veer, slue, slew, cut (turn sharply; change direction abruptly) "The car cut to the left at the intersection"; "The motorbike veered to the right"