noun
alternate route, temporary route, circuitous route, bypass, byway, bypath, back road, service road, alternate highway, secondary highway, indirect way, circuit, deviation, digression, roundabout way; see also road 1.
Antonyms highway*, direct route, main road.
See detour in Webster's New World Roget's A-Z Thesaurus II
To pass around but not through:
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