Entertainment

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See also Entertainment (disambiguation) and The Entertainer (disambiguation)

Entertainment is an event, performance, or activity designed to give pleasure to an audience (although, for example, in the case of a computer game the "audience" may be only one person). The audience may participate in the entertainment passively as in watching opera or actively as in computer games.

In Edutainment[1], entertainment and education blend together to make learning easier.

The industry that provides entertainment is called the entertainment industry.

Recreation, play, reading, and art appreciation are not generally regarded as entertainment but rather as recreation because entertainment generally requires the supplier of the performance to be visible to the viewer, with the exception of computer games.

A stilt-walker entertaining shoppers at a shopping centre in Swindon, England

[edit] Examples of Entertainment

• Animation
• Betting
• Chat
• Circus
• Dance
• Film
• Drinking
• Drugs
• Game
• Humor
• Magic
• Mass media
  • movies/film/cinema
  • television
  • radio
  • new media
• Museums
• Music
• Revue
• Show business
• Sex business
• Shooting
• Sports
• Theatre
• Fighting

[edit] See also

• Entertainment basic topics

[edit] External links

• Entertainment at the Open Directory Project