Detour (Verb)
Meaning
Travel via a detour.
Classification
Verbs of walking, flying, swimming.
Examples
- Travelers were forced to detour around a flooded section of the highway.
- We had to detour through a side street due to a parade blocking the main road.
- The GPS instructed us to detour to avoid a traffic jam on the highway.
- To avoid the road construction, we decided to detour through the nearby town.
- The hikers had to detour over a mountain ridge to get around a swollen river.