Detour (disambiguation)

A detour is a temporary routing to avoid an obstruction.

It may also refer to:

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