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, orchestrated dance involving several performers
  • Comedy routine, comedic act or part of an act
  • The Routine (album), by Hotwire, 2003
  • "The Routine", 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, a video game developed by Lunar Software and published by Raw Fury

Computing

  • Routine, another name for a computer program
  • Coroutine, generalized reentrant computer subroutine having multiple entry points
  • Subroutine, a routine inside another routine

Other uses

  • Ethnomethodology, sociological discipline focused on the methods groups use to create societal order
  • Routine activity theory, sub-field of criminology
  • Routinization of authority, the process through which a charismatic authority becomes a bureaucracy
  • Routine life or everyday life
  • Schedule, or timetable, a basic time-management tool to formalize or develop a routine
  • Visual routine, visual cognitive means of extracting information from a scene