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Entertainment consists of any activity which provides a diversion or permits people to amuse themselves in their leisure time. Entertainment is generally passive such as watching opera or a movie. Active forms of amusement such as sports are more often considered to be recreation.1 Activities such as personal reading or practicing a musical instrument are considered to be hobbies.

Entertainment may also provide fun enjoyment and laughter. The industry that provides entertainment is called the entertainment industry. There are many forms of entertainment for example: cinema theatre sports games and social dance. Puppets clowns pantomimes and cartoons tend to appeal to children though adults may also find them enjoyable. Contents 1 Forms of entertainment 1.1 Animation 1.2 Cinema and theater 1.3 Comedy 1.4 Comics 1.5 Dance and music 1.6 Games 1.7 Other forms of entertainment 2 See also 3 Footnotes 4 External links Forms of entertainment This article may be confusing or unclear to readers. Please help clarify the article; suggestions may be found on the talk page. (April 2011) This article may document a neologism in such a manner as to promote it. Please add more reliable sources to establish its current use and the impact the term has had on its field. Otherwise consider renaming or deleting the article. (April 2011) Animation An animated cartoon horse

Some people find animation to be amusing. Similarly some people find cartoons to be entertaining.2 Cinema and theater

Many people find cinema /or theater and other live performance such as circus plays musicals farces monologues and pantomimes to be entertaining. Comedy

Comedy provides laughter and amusement. The audience is taken by surprise by the parody or satire of an unexpected effect or an opposite expectations of their cultural beliefs. Slapstick film one-liner joke observational humor are forms of comedy which have developed since the early days of jesters and traveling minstrels.3 Comics Felix the Cat comic strip

Comics contain text and drawings which convey an entertaining narrative.4 Several famous comics revolve around super heroes such as Superman and Batman. Marvel Comics and DC Comics are two publishers of comic books. Manga is the Japanese word for comic and print cartoons.

Caricature is a graphical entertainment. The purpose may vary from merely putting smile on the viewers face to raising social awareness to highlighting the moral vices of a person being caricatured. Dance and music

Many people find involvement in social dance to be entertaining. Some interesting people listen to or watch musical entertainment. Games Lists of miscellaneous information should be avoided. Please relocate any relevant information into appropriate sections or articles. (April 2011) Bingo

Games provide relaxation and diversion. Games may be played by one person for their own entertainment or by a group of people. Games may be played for achievement or money such as gambling or bingo. Racing chess or checkers may develop physical or mental prowess. Games may be geared for children or may be played outdoors such as lawn bowling. Equipment may be necessary to play the game such as a deck of cards for card games or a board and markers for board games such as Monopoly or backgammon.5 This can include ball games Blind man's bluff board games card games children's games croquet Frisbee hide and seek number games paintball and video games. Other forms of entertainment This article or section lacks comparisons. To help improve it make a comparative view including different countries and systems and their pluses and minuses. Try using tables drawings and figures. Please improve this article or discuss the issue on the talk page. Sporting events are a popular form of entertainment. Concert Lecture Magic Mass media Radio Sports Storytelling Cinema See also Book: Entertainment Wikipedia Books are collections of articles that can be downloaded or ordered in print. Wikimedia Commons has media related to: Category:Entertainment Main article: List of basic entertainment topics Busking Escapism History of film Leisure Literature Footnotes "Entertainment". Dictionary.com. Lexi-co Publishing Group. 2007. http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/entertainment. Retrieved 2007-11-30.  www.wowomg.com "Cartoon - Definitions from Dictionary.com". Lexi-co Publishing Group LLC.. 2010. www.wowomg.com. Retrieved 2007-11-30.  "Comedy". From: The Columbia Encyclopedia Sixth Edition. High Beam Research Inc.. 2007.  "Comic strip". Britannica Online Encyclopedia. Encyclopedia Britannica Inc.. 2007. http://www.britannica.com/eb/article-9106123/comic-strip. Retrieved 2007-11-30.  "Games - MSN Encarta". Microsoft. 2007. Archived from the original on 2009-10-31. http://www.webcitation.org/5kwbpT4dT. Retrieved 2007-11-30.  External links Look up entertainer in Wiktionary the free dictionary. Entertainment at the Open Directory Project Free Worldwide Entertainment Search Enigne v d eAesthetics Related articles Aesthetics of music  Applied aesthetics  Architecture  Art  Arts criticism  Gastronomy  History of aesthetics (pre-1900)  History of painting  Humour  Japanese aesthetics  Literary merit  Mathematics and art  Mathematical beauty  Painting  Philosophy of film  Philosophy of music  Poetry  Sculpture  Theory of painting  Tragedy Concepts in aesthetics Aesthetic emotions  Art manifesto  Art object  Avant-garde  Beauty  Boring  Comedy  Camp  Creativity  Cute  Discordant  Disgusting  Ecstasy  Elegance  Eroticism  Entertainment  Fun  Gaze  Harmony  Interpretation  Judgement  Kitsch  Perception  Pretentious  Rasa  Style  Sublime  Taste  more... Theories of aesthetics Symbolism  Romanticism  Historicism  Classicism  Modernism  Postmodernism  Psychoanalytic theory  more... Philosophers of art Theodor W. Adorno  Alexander Gottlieb Baumgarten  Arthur Schopenhauer  David Hume  Friedrich Nietzsche  Georg Hegel  Hans Urs von Balthasar  Immanuel Kant  Paul Klee  Jean-Franois Lyotard  Joseph Margolis  Martin Heidegger  Nelson Goodman  Richard Wollheim  Thierry de Duve  George Santayana  Hubert Dreyfus  John Dewey  Friedrich Schiller  Gyrgy Lukcs  Jacques Maritain  Bernard Bosanquet  Clive Bell  I. A. Richards  Jos Ortega y Gasset  R. G. Collingwood  David Prall  Dewitt H. Parker  Edward Bullough  Irving Singer  Roger Fry  Stephen Pepper  Susanne Langer  Theodor Lipps  Thomas Munro  Curt John Ducasse  Arthur Danto  more ... Portal  Category  Task Force  Stubs  Discussion