A step to one side (as in boxing or dancing)

• Avoid date in Rome blocking advance?
• Dodge (an issue?)
• Dodge with footwork
• Duck, parrot and budgie, perhaps, back on team
• Avoid answering
• Son that is returning gym skirt

Wiktionary Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. 1 A step to the side. 2 A motion, physical or metaphorical, to avoid or dodge something. vb. 1 (context intransitive English) To step to the side. 2 (context transitive English) To avoid or dodge.

Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
verb COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS ■ NOUN issue ▪ But by naming a larger squad than normal, Eriksson will be able to sidestep the issue . problem ▪ The company says the process could sidestep some of the problems of conventional solar cells, such as cost and ...

Wikipedia Word definitions in Wikipedia
Sidestep may refer to: Avoidance behavior SideStep , a travel Internet search engine Side-slipping , in jazz music