Routine may refer to:

Arts, entertainment, and media

* "Routine" (''SWT''), the first of four stories in the second issue of the ''Star Wars Tales'' series *

Choreographed routine Formation dance is a style of ballroom dancing. It is pattern or shadow team dancing by couples in a formation team. The choreography may be based on a particular dance or a medley of dances. Formation dancing may be done for exhibition or for compe ...

, orchestrated dance involving several performers *

Comedy routine Sketch comedy comprises a series of short, amusing scenes or vignettes, called "sketches", commonly between one and ten minutes long, performed by a group of comic actors or comedians. The form developed and became popular in vaudeville, and i ...

, comedic act or part of an act * ''The Routine'' (album), by Hotwire, 2003 *" The Routine", the first episode of the HBO series ''Oz'' *" Routine", a bonus track by Alan Walker from his 2018 album ''Different World''

Computing

* Routine, another name for a

computer program A computer program is a sequence or set of instructions in a programming language for a computer to execute. Computer programs are one component of software, which also includes documentation and other intangible components. A computer program ...

Coroutine Coroutines are computer program components that generalize subroutines for non-preemptive multitasking, by allowing execution to be suspended and resumed. Coroutines are well-suited for implementing familiar program components such as cooperative ...

, generalized reentrant computer subroutine having multiple entry points **

Subroutine In computer programming, a function or subroutine is a sequence of program instructions that performs a specific task, packaged as a unit. This unit can then be used in programs wherever that particular task should be performed. Functions may ...

, a routine inside another routine

Other uses

Ethnomethodology Ethnomethodology is the study of how social order is produced in and through processes of social interaction.Garfinkel, H. (1974) 'The origins of the term ethnomethodology', in R.Turner (Ed.) Ethnomethodology, Penguin, Harmondsworth, pp 15–18. I ...

, sociological discipline focused on the methods groups use to create societal order *

Routine activity theory Routine activity theory is a sub-field of crime opportunity theory that focuses on situations of crimes. It was first proposed by Marcus Felson and Lawrence E. Cohen in their explanation of crime rate changes in the United States between 1947 ...

, sub-field of criminology * Routinization of authority, the process through which a charismatic authority becomes a bureaucracy *

Schedule A schedule or a timetable, as a basic time-management tool, consists of a list of times at which possible tasks, events, or actions are intended to take place, or of a sequence of events in the chronological order in which such things are i ...

, or timetable, a basic time-management tool to formalize or develop a routine * Visual routine, visual cognitive means of extracting information from a scene {{disambiguation