Entertaining - Definition and Overview

Entertainment is an amusement or diversion intended to hold the attention of an audience or its participants.

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

Examples of entertainment include:

• Animation (primarily traditional, computer, and stop-motion)
• Betting
• Chat
• Circus
• Dance
• Film
• Drinking
• Game
• Geisha
• Humor (including clowns, comedians and Internet humor)
• Magic
• Mass media (movies/film/cinema, television, radio, new media)
• Music (including disco and J-POP)
• Revue
• Show business
• Sex business
• Shooting
• Sports
• Theatre

See also

• Entertainment basic topics
• Pastime index

External links

• http://dmoz.org/Arts/Entertainment/
• http://www.encoretickets.com