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" (song), a 1951 song recorded by Patti Page The Detours, a previous name of the Who "Detour", a 2019 song from their album Who 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