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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
• 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

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