The legal definition of a rout in Nevada is when two or more persons meet to do an unlawful act, upon a common cause of quarrel, and make advances toward it. In other words, routing is assembling to break the law and taking steps to break the law, but no law ends up getting broken. The legal definition of a riot in Nevada is when two or more persons do an unlawful act of violence in a violent, tumultuous and illegal manner. Note that riots are not simply routs that turned violent. Routs involve assembling upon a common cause of quarrel and intending to break the law. Contrarily, you may be convicted of rioting even if you are acting up for different purposes from the other rioters and have no intention of committing a crime.