Present participle of avoidHave you been avoiding me?(as progressive form of avoid)I noted his carefully avoiding eye contact.(as present participle)I noted his careful avoiding of eye contact.(as gerund)
1865, w:Anthony Trollope, w, Two classes of people she had chosen to avoid, having been driven to such avoidings by her aunt's preferences; marquises and such-like, whether wicked or otherwise, she had eschewed, and had eschewed likewise all Low Church tendencies.
