refraining (?.)
- Encratism
- Friday
- Lenten fare
- Pythagoreanism
- Pythagorism
- Rechabitism
- Shakerism
- Spartan fare
- Stoicism
- abstainment
- abstemiousness
- abstention
- abstinence
- asceticism
- avoidance
- avoiding reaction
- banyan day
- celibacy
- chastity
- circumvention
- continence
- defense mechanism
- dodge
- duck
- elusion
- elusiveness
- equivocation
- escape
- eschewal
- evasion
- evasive action
- evasiveness
- fast
- fish day
- forbearance
- forestalling
- forestallment
- fruitarianism
- getting around
- gymnosophy
- jink
- nephalism
- neutrality
- nonintervention
- noninvolvement
- plain living
- prevention
- refrainment
- sexual abstinence
- shunning
- shunting off
- shy
- sidestep
- sidetracking
- simple diet
- slip
- spare diet
- teetotalism
- the pledge
- the runaround
- total abstinence
- vegetarianism
- zigzag