evasive action

1. 1.

   an action aimed at evading an opponent

   Synonymsmaneuvermanoeuvre

   Broaderevasion

   Narrowerclinchflight maneuverstraight-arm

Questions about evasive action

What does evasive action mean?

evasive action means "an action aimed at evading an opponent".

What is another word for evasive action?

Close synonyms include maneuver, manoeuvre. 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 evasive action a common word?

evasive action 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.