taking a turn

Verb

take a turn (third-person singular simple present takes a turn, present participle taking a turn, simple past took a turn, past participle taken a turn)

1. (idiomatic) Change in direction, tone, or tendency.
   • In like manner do false teachers commence their discourses, by taking care to avoid a strait line of simple truthl they run a little waya, pretending that the divine Being is all love and grace to mankind, is the same yesterday, to-day and forever, that the most entire confidence may be safely...1819, Hosea Ballou (the Elder.), A Sermon, delivered in the Second Universalist Meeting House
2. To walk around; to stroll.
   • I must take a turn in the open air to recover myself.1798, August Friedrich Ferdinand von Kotzebue, The Stranger: a comedy
3. To participate in an activity involving two or more participants.
   • At each of these decision-making points, participants may choose not to take a turn.1980, Mary Ritchie Key, The Relationship of Verbal and Nonverbal Communication, →ISBN, page 295