take to the woods

Synonyms:

break away, bunk, escape, fly the coop, head for the hills, hightail it, lam, run, run away, scarper, scat, turn tail

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flee, fly, take flight

run away quickly

skedaddle

run away, as if in a panic

break

make a rupture in the ranks of the enemy or one's own by quitting or fleeing

stampede

run away in a stampede

abscond, absquatulate, bolt, decamp, go off, make off, run off

run away; usually includes taking something or somebody along

elope, run off

run away secretly with one's beloved

break loose, escape, get away

run away from confinement

high-tail

retreat at full speed

defect, desert

desert (a cause, a country or an army), often in order to join the opposing cause, country, or army

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go away, go forth, leave

go away from a place