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 is ...

, comedic act or part of an act * ''The Routine'' (album), by Hotwire, 2003 *"

The Routine "The Routine" is the pilot and first episode of the HBO prison drama television series '' Oz''. Written by Tom Fontana and directed by Darnell Martin, it aired originally on July 12, 1997. Starring * Ernie Hudson as Warden Leo Glynn * Terry Kin ...

", the first episode of the HBO series ''Oz'' * "The Routine" (''The Amazing World of Gumball''), an episode of ''The Amazing World of Gumball'' *" Routine", a bonus track by Alan Walker from his 2018 album ''Different World'' *'' Routine'', an upcoming video game developed by Lunar Software and published by

Raw Fury Raw Fury AB is a Swedish video game publisher, specialising in the publication of indie games, based in Stockholm. The company was founded in 2015 by Jonas Antonsson and Gordon Van Dyke. History The company was founded in 2015 by Jonas Anton ...

Computing

* Routine, another name for a computer program ** Coroutine, 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, 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 Charismatic authority is a concept of leadership developed by the German sociologist Max Weber. It involves a type of organization or a type of leadership in which authority derives from the charisma of the leader. This stands in contrast to two o ...

, the process through which a charismatic authority becomes a bureaucracy * Routine life or everyday life *

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 A visual routine is a means of extracting information from a visual scene. Shimon Ullman, in his studies on human visual cognition, proposed that the human visual system's task of perceiving shape properties and spatial relations is split into ...

, visual cognitive means of extracting information from a scene {{disambiguation