countercurrent

English Thesaurus

1. actions counter to the main group activity (noun.act)

hypernym	:	strife,
definition	:	bitter conflict; heated often violent dissension (noun.act)

2. a stretch of turbulent water in a river or the sea caused by one current flowing into or across another current (noun.event)

hypernym	:	turbulence, turbulency,
definition	:	unstable flow of a liquid or gas (noun.phenomenon)