change course

1. 1.

   shift from one side of the ship to the other

   “The sail jibbed wildly”

   Synonymsjibegybejib

   Broadersail

Questions about change course

What does change course mean?

change course means "shift from one side of the ship to the other".

What is another word for change course?

Close synonyms include jibe, gybe, jib. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is change course a common word?

change course is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.