avoidance
avoiding reaction
buck-passing
cheat
circumvention
defense mechanism
dodge
duck
elusiveness
equivocation
escape
eschewal
evasion
evasive action
evasiveness
foiling
forbearance
forestalling
forestallment
frustration
getting around
getting round
jink
mockery
neutrality
nonintervention
noninvolvement
outguessing
outmaneuvering
outwitting
passing the buck
prevention
refraining
runaround
shunning
shunting off
shy
sidestep
sidetracking
slip
the runaround
the slip
thwarting
trickery
zigzag