The phrase "a form of distraction" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when discussing something that diverts attention or focus from a primary task or thought.
Example: "Social media can often serve as a form of distraction during work hours."
Alternatives: "a type of diversion" or "a means of distraction."
However, there is other evidence, reviewed below, suggesting that hypnosis is not simply a form of distraction.
The viewer's attention, in effect, is the TV network's product and the programming itself is a form of distraction to lull viewers into watching.
The comic turns, performed with vaudevillian flair by the ensemble cast, are a form of distraction from intrusions from the streets, where Irish republican insurgents and British auxiliary forces clash in raids and ambushes.
"To some extent these products are a form of distraction, and that might help," said Dr. Stephen Barrett, a psychiatrist who has investigated the claims of some aromatherapy makers.
His blindness is bound up with a self-protective inability to recognize what's obvious to everyone he meets: that he's an old man, that he'll never be successful, and that his artistic ambitions are a form of distraction.
To paraphrase the famous dictum, often attributed to Yogi Berra, that you can't think and hit at the same time, you can't think and tweet at the same time either, not because it is impossible to multitask but because tweeting, which is largely a burst of either brief, unsupported opinions or brief descriptions of your own prosaic activities, is a form of distraction or anti-thinking.
When you revise, sit at a desk with no music, TV, internet, mobile phone or any form of distraction.
In this first-in-the-nation case, the judge ruled it was reasonable for the sender of a text message to assume it is the recipient's responsibility to know if it is safe to respond: "Were I to extend this duty to this case, in my judgment, any form of distraction could potentially serve as the basis for a liability case".
He took himself off for weeks to an isolated clinic in the Bavarian forest, far away from any form of distraction.
The source of the distraction is often the cell phone, but any form of distraction that takes full attention away from driving would qualify.
"Phenomena hunting," as she has called her intense encounters with nature, became for her a form of constructive distraction.
