The chemical reactions and pathways involving any one of a family of organic molecules consisting of a purine base covalently bonded to a sugar deoxyribose (a deoxyribonucleoside).
purine nucleoside biosynthetic process +
purine nucleoside catabolic process +
purine nucleoside interconversion +
purine ribonucleoside metabolic process +
pyrimidine deoxyribonucleoside metabolic process +