🤸 To move aside 🕵️ To avoid answering 🕵️ A trick 🤸 A sudden move

to dodge

112 3.0

To move quickly to avoid being hit

verb
/dɑdʒ/

: esquivar

Yes, I managed to dodge that bullet.

I don't know how I managed to dodge it, but I did.

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Examples

Sam tries instinctively to dodge the crowds, but people approach him from all angles.

Fiction book (1990)
Ted wipes his mouth with his jacket sleeve while trying to dodge the barrel of the gun.

Fiction book (1995)
If they just point that staff at us, we dodge.

Shazam! Fury of the Gods (2023)
I can dodge a technique like yours easily!

Means and Ends (1987)
To avoid her, the prey had no choice but to dodge and turn to the east.

Academic text (1990)
lf you can dodge traffic, you can dodge a ball.

DodgeBall: A True Underdog Story (2004)
You shoot, I dodge.

Thunderbolts* (2025)
If I'm the one, I can dodge bullets and then Morpheus is like, No, Neo.

The Iced Coffee Hour
Mohawks and Highlanders dodge right and left of the 62nd's line of fire.

Fiction book (1992)
He had to dodge quickly to avoid the oncoming car.

Synonyms

to duck

vsto dodge

168 1.7

To lower your head or body quickly to avoid being hit

avoids by sudden whole-body motion rather than only lowering the head

to evade

vsto dodge

62 4.4

To get away from someone or something by being clever and tricky

describes a fast sudden physical move to avoid a person or object

to swerve

vsto dodge

56 2.8

To turn suddenly to avoid hitting something

is a sudden bodily move to avoid contact, not only directional change

to juke

vsto dodge

Jargon

2 8.1

To make a quick fake move to get past a defender

avoids others by sudden motion without implying trickery or sport

to jink

vsto dodge

1 8.1

To move quickly to avoid something by changing direction

moves quickly without stressing an unexpected change of direction

to duck and dive

vsto dodge

1 8.4

To move quickly and skillfully to avoid things or difficult problems

is a single sudden movement to avoid contact rather than skillful evasion

Antonyms

to confront

336 4.1

Face someone directly in an angry or challenging way to accuse them

Idioms

to dodge a bullet

Informal

25 6.4

Avoid a very bad or dangerous situation at the last moment

to get out of Dodge

Informal

18 9.2

Leave a place quickly to avoid trouble or danger

Phrasal Verbs

to dodge the traffic

1 3.6

Avoid heavy traffic by taking a different route

to dodge the raindrops

1 7.3

To avoid getting wet in the rain by moving quickly between covered places

Compounds

tax dodge

3 8.0

An illegal way to avoid paying taxes

How Fast

to swerve

56 2.8

to dodge

112 3.0

to duck

168 1.7

to step aside

121 3.4

Surface Forms

dodge infinitive

dodged past

dodged past participle

dodging present participle

dodges third person singular

Etymology

Dodge probably began as a word for 'ducking' or slipping aside, like when you duck to avoid a ball. So to dodge is to move quickly and suddenly to avoid someone or something.