Before each, Ms. Battle went though an elaborate routine of collecting herself: wiping her brow, breathing deeply, and giggling nervously.

But afterward Spencer and his friends would take her through an elaborate routine, to make sure they were not followed.

This elaborate routine did not impress a chess-playing friend of mine, who said it was all only a matter of memorization.

There are the silly but elaborate routines.

"So why were we going through that whole elaborate routine at the casino?"

This habit includes an elaborate routine of glove adjustments and alternating toe taps on the ground prior to an ensuing pitch.

There was no need to go through the elaborate routine of test and counter-test.

Flamboyant light displays were used to bring elaborate routines to the small stage.

Like life, "'night, Mother" is virtually a comic pantomime, with its elaborate unspoken routines and formal gestures running in parallel with a tragic drama.

They are known to perform elaborate routines on stage and discuss possibly fictitious stories of dada artists and mathematicians.