A change of direction or orientation.
Give the handle a turn, then pull it.
A movement of an object about its own axis in one direction that continues until the object returns to its initial orientation.
A walk to and fro.
From Middle English turnen, from Old English turnian, tyrnan (“to turn, rotate, revolve”), from Proto-West Germanic *turnēn (“to turn, lathe”) (also the source of German turnen and its derivatives) an...
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To change one's course of action; to take a new approach.
And they made a calfe in thoſe dayes / and offered ſacrifice vnto the ymage / and reioyſed in the workes of theyr awne hondes. / Then God turned hym ſilfe / and gave them vp /[…]
Let's take a turn in the garden.