Verb
switch gears (third-person singular simple present switches gears, present participle switching gears, simple past and past participle switched gears)
Alternative form of shift gears
It's hard either way, at home or on the bus, I think the hardest thing probably for me is going one second from being mom to right out on the stage and having to be that person too. It's hard to switch gears. Lee Ann Womack
The way you really find out about the performer's seriousness about the cause is how long they stay with it when the spotlight gets turned off. You see a lot of celebrities switch gears. They go from the environment to animal rights to obesity or whatever. That I don't have a lot of respect for. Robert Redford