• Choreographed routine, orchestrated dance involving several performers
• Comedy routine, comedic act or part of an act
• Visual routine, visual cognitive means of extracting information from a scene
• Routine activity theory, sub-field of criminology
• Routine (SWT), first of four stories in the second issue of the Star Wars Tales series
• Routine Irregular, 2002 debut album by the British metal band Fony
• Routine Valor, 2006 Star Wars comic book by Dark Horse Comics
• Subroutine, reused piece of computer code
• Coroutine, generalized reentrant computer subroutine having multiple entry points
• Ethnomethodology, sociological discipline focused on the methods groups use to create societal order

• eine Handlungsabfolge , die durch vielfältige Wiederholung zur Gewohnheit geworden ist.
• in der Informatik kurze Programme oder Programmteile, siehe Routine (Programmierung).
• in der Zauberkunst der Fachbegriff für einen Zaubertrick

La parola viene dal francese route, strada, che deriva dal latino via rupta, cioè "via aperta", "strada battuta":

• nel 1442 è attestato in francese routier, colui che conosce bene la strada;
• nel 1559 in italiano il verbo rumpere (da dove il succitato "rupta") esprime la facoltà di acquisire conoscenza per mezzo della pratica e dell'esperienza, più che dallo studio.