breather

Now there was a chance ‘to give our forces a breather and replenish stocks,’ he continued.

"She taught me what I needed to know and then after that she told me that I could just go for a walk and just take a breather."

A safety who usually subbed for Foster to give him occasional breathers had gotten hurt the week before, forcing him to play the entire game.

“And that gap is paid for by the lungs of the breathers in California. That’s what’s subsidizing polluting industries — people’s health.”

Naturally, he will need a breather from time to time.