A detour is a temporary routing to avoid an obstruction.

It may also refer to:

Places

United States

  • Grand Detour Township, Ogle County, Illinois
  • Grand Detour, Illinois, a village in the township
  • Detour, Maryland, an unincorporated village in Carroll County
  • Detour Township, Michigan
  • De Tour Village, Michigan, a village in the township

Elsewhere

  • Detour River, a tributary of the Turgeon River, in Quebec, Canada

Literature

  • Detour (Goldsmith novel), a 1939 novel by Martin Goldsmith
  • Detour (Brodsky novel), a 1977 novel by Michael Brodsky
  • The Detour (novel), a 2010 novel by Gerbrand Bakker

Film and television

  • Detour (1945 film), an American film noir
  • Detour (1967 film), a Bulgarian drama
  • Detour (2009 Canadian film), a Canadian thriller directed by Sylvain Guy
  • Detour (2009 Norwegian film), a Norwegian horror directed by Severin Eskeland
  • Detour (2013 film), a film directed by William Dickerson
  • Detour (2016 film), a thriller directed by Christopher Smith
  • Detour (2021 film), a Nigerian crime drama
  • Détour, a 2017 short film directed by Michel Gondry
  • Detours (film), a 2016 road-trip comedy
  • Teletoon Detour, an adult-oriented cartoon block on the Canadian television channel Teletoon
  • "Detour" (The X-Files), a fifth-season episode of The X-Files
  • "Detour" (Frasier episode), an eleventh-season episode of Frasier
  • "Detour" (NCIS), a tenth-season episode of NCIS
  • Detour (Transformers), a member of the Micromasters
  • The Detour (TV series), an American comedy television series

Music

  • LA Weekly Detour Music Festival, often referred to as just Detour, a music festival held annually in downtown Los Angeles, California
  • Detour (Christine Allen album), 1980
  • Detour (Cyndi Lauper album), 2016
  • Detour (Kim Petras album), 2026
  • Detours (Saga album), 1997
  • Detours (Sheryl Crow album), 2008
  • "Detours" (song), a 2008 single from Sheryl Crow's album of the same name
  • "Detour", a 2020 album by Jay Fung
  • "Detour" (song), a 1951 song recorded by Patti Page
  • The Detours, a previous name of the Who
  • "Detour", a 2019 song from their album Who
  • "Detour", a 1962 song by Bo Diddley from the album Bo Diddley's a Twister

Other

  • Frolic and detour, a legal term for an employee acting without order from his employer and temporarily leaving the employer's premises
  • Microsoft Detours, an open source library for intercepting, monitoring and instrumenting binary functions on Microsoft Windows