• to give sy the jink, to keep out of sy's way
• to avoid, to fight shy of sg, to shirk
• to enter into details, to go into details
• to give a ship a wide berth
• to fly off at a tangent
• bay, by-pass, circuit, double, evasive, recess, shuffling
• deflection, deflexion, digression, dodge, evasion, evasiveness, excursion, jink, offset, roundabout
• points, side-track, siding, turn-out track, turnout