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Essence of entertainment

Main article: Entertainment

Entertainment

Entertainment is an activity designed to give people pleasure or relaxation. An audience may participate in the entertainment passively as in watching opera or a movie, or actively as in games....

Types of entertainment

Amusement park

Amusement park

Amusement park is the generic term for a collection of Amusement ride and other entertainment attractions assembled for the purpose of entertaining a large group of people....
s - Art exhibits - Fair

Fair

A fair is a gathering of people to display or trade produce or other goods, to parade or display animals and often to enjoy associated carnival or funfair entertainment....
s - Museum

Museum

A museum is a "permanent institution in the service of society and of its development, open to the public, which acquires, conserves, researches, communicates and exhibits the tangible and intangible heritage of humanity and its environment, for the purposes of education, study, and entertainment", as defined by the International Coun...
s - Theme parks - Trade shows - Wax museum

Wax museum

A wax museum or waxworks consists of a collection of Wax sculptures representing famous people from history and contemporary personalities exhibited in lifelike poses....
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Busking

Busking

Busking is the practice of performance in public places for tips and gratuities. People engaging in this practice are called buskers. Busking performances are widely varied, and can include acrobatics, animal tricks, balloon modeling, card tricks, clowning, comedy, contortionist & escapologist, dance, Fire eater, fortune-telling, juggl...
 - Circus

Circus

File:Faroe stamp 416 circus.jpgA circus is commonly a traveling company of performers that may include acrobatics, clowns, trained animals, trapeze acts, hoopers, tightrope walkers, juggling, unicyclists and other stunt-oriented artists....
 - Comedy

Comedy

Comedy as a popular meaning, is any humorous discourse generally intended to amuse, especially in television, film, and stand-up comedy. This must be carefully distinguished from its academic definition, namely the comic theatre, whose Western culture origins are found in Ancient Greece....
, Comedy club

Comedy club

A comedy club is a venue, typically a nightclub, where people watch or listen to performances, including stand-up comedians, improvisational comedians, impersonators, magic , ventriloquists and other comedy acts....
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Concert

A concert is a live performance, usually of music, before an audience. The music may be performed by a single musician, sometimes then called a recital, or by a musical ensemble, such as an orchestra, a choir, or a musical band....
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Cooking

Cooking is the process of preparing food by applying heat, selecting, measuring and combining of ingredients in an ordered procedure for producing safe and edible food....
 - Dance

Dance

Dance is an art form that generally refers to Motion of the body, usually rhythmic and to music, used as a form of Emotional expression, social social interaction or presented in a spirituality or performance setting....
 - Drama

Drama

Drama is the specific Mode of fiction Mimesis in performance. The term comes from a Ancient Greek word meaning "Action " , which is derived from "to do" ....
 - Fireworks

Fireworks

A firework is classified as a low explosive material pyrotechnics device used primarily for aesthetic and entertainment purposes. The most common use of a firework is as part of a fireworks display....
 - Musical theatre

Musical theatre

Musical theatre is a form of theatre combining music, songs, spoken dialogue and dance. The emotional content of the piece ? humor, pathos, love, anger ? as well as the story itself, is communicated through the words, music, movement and technical aspects of the entertainment as an integrated whole....
 - Nightclub

Nightclub

A nightclub is a Alcoholic beverage, Dance and entertainment Music venue which does its primary business after dark. People who frequent nightclubs are known as clubbers....
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Discothèque

A discoth?que, , is an entertainment venue or club with music record played by "Discaires" through a PA system, rather than an Live band dance....
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Opera

Opera is an Performing arts in which singers and musicians perform a dramatic work which combines a text and a musical score. Opera is part of the Western classical music tradition....
s - Parade

Parade

A parade is a procession of people, usually organized along a street, often in costume, and often accompanied by marching bands, float or sometimes large balloons....
s - Performance art

Performance art

Performance art is art in which the actions of an individual or a group at a particular place and in a particular time constitute the work. It can happen anywhere, at any time, or for any length of time....
 - Plays - Magic

Magic (illusion)

Magic is a performing art that entertains an audience by creating illusions of seemingly impossible or supernatural feats, using purely natural means....
 - Spectator sport

Sport

Sport is an activity that is governed by a set of regulation of sport or traditions and often engaged in competitively. Sports commonly refer to activities where the physical capabilities of the competitor are the sole or primary determinant of the outcome , but the term is also used to include activities such as mind sports and motor...
s, Sports events - Striptease

Striptease

A striptease or exotic dance is a form of erotic entertainment, usually a dance, in which the performer, known as a "stripper", gradually undresses, in a teasing and sexually suggestive manner, to music....
, Lap dance

Lap dance

A lap dance is a specific type of erotic dancing/erotic dance/sexual encounter offered in some strip clubs or gentlemen's clubs in which the client/patron is seated, and the dancer/sex worker is either in immediate contact with the patron/client, or within a very short distance....
s, Strip club

Strip club

A strip club is a nightclub or Bar that offers striptease and possibly other related services such as lap dances. While usually considered much less objectionable than more explicit adult entertainment such as live sex shows, they are often the focus of morality campaigns and restrictive legislation....
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Theatre

Theatre is the branch of the performing arts defined by Bernard Beckerman as what "occurs when one or more actor, isolated in time and/or Theater , present themselves to Audience." By this broad definition, theatre has existed since the dawn of man, as a result of human tendency for story telling....
 Variety

Variety

Variety may refer to*Variety , a rank in botany below that of species.*Variety , the number of possible states of a system or of an element of the system....
 Vaudeville

Vaudeville

Vaudeville was a genre of a variety show prevalent on the theatre in the United States and Canada from the early 1880s until the early 1930s. It developed from many sources, including the concert saloon, minstrel show, freak shows, dime museums, and literary burlesque....

Film

Film

Film encompasses individual motion pictures, the field of film as an art form, and the film industry. Films are produced by recording images from the world with cameras, or by creating images using animation techniques or special effects....
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Magazine

for quarterly in Heraldry see Quartering Magazines, periodicals, glossies or serials are publications, generally published on a regular schedule, containing a variety of Article , generally financed by advertising, by a purchase price, by pre-paid magazine subscription, or all three....
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Music

Music is an art form whose media is sound organized in time. Common elements of music are pitch , rhythm , dynamics , and the sonic qualities of timbre and texture ....
, Recording

Recording

Recording is a process of capturing data or translating information to a recording format stored on a storage medium often referred to as a record....
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New media

New media is a term meant to encompass the emergence of digital, computerized, or networked information technology and communication technology technologies in the later part of the 20th century....
 - Novel

Novel

File:2009 stapelweise Neuerscheinungen im Buchladen.JPGA novel is today a long narrative in literary prose. The genre has historical roots both in the fields of the medieval and early modern Romance and in the tradition of the novella....
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Radio

Radio is the transmission of signals, by modulation of electromagnetic radiation with frequency below those of visible light.Electromagnetic radiation radio propagation by means of oscillating electromagnetic fields that pass through the air and the vacuum of space....
, Radio programs - Television

Television

Television is a widely used telecommunication mass-media for transmitting and receiving moving , either monochrome or color, usually accompanied by sound....
, Television program

Television program

A television program , television programme , or television show is something that people watch on television. It may be a one-off broadcast or, more usually, part of a periodically recurring television series....
s - Video games

History of entertainment

Main article: History of entertainment

Basic entertainment concepts

Famous entertainers

Entertainment lists

Main article: List of entertainment topics

• List of cooking topics, see: cooking
  Cooking
  
  Cooking is the process of preparing food by applying heat, selecting, measuring and combining of ingredients in an ordered procedure for producing safe and edible food....
  , cuisine
  Cuisine
  
  Cuisine is a specific set of cooking traditions and practices, often associated with a specific culture. A cuisine is primarily influenced by the ingredients that are available locally or through trade....
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• List of basic dance topics
  List of basic dance topics
  
  Dance generally refers to human movement either used as a form of Emotional expression or presented in a social, spirituality or performance setting....
  
• List of basic literature topics
  List of basic literature topics
  
  Literature is prose, written or oral literature, including fiction and non-fiction, drama and poetry. See also the list of basic poetry topics....
  
• List of basic film-related topics
• List of basic music topics
  List of basic music topics
  
  Music is a human expression in the medium of tempo using the structures of sounds or notes and silence. It is expressed in terms of pitch , rhythm, harmony, and timbre....
  
• List of basic sports topics
  List of basic sports topics
  
  A sport is a physical activity that is governed by a set of rules or customs and often engaged in competitively.The following topic outline is provided as an overview of and introduction to sports:...
  
• List of television
  Television
  
  Television is a widely used telecommunication mass-media for transmitting and receiving moving , either monochrome or color, usually accompanied by sound....
   subcategories
• List of basic theater topics
• Lists of entertainers
  Lists of entertainers
  
  Lists of different types of entertainers:* Animation* Experimental filmmaker* Movie star* List of actors** List of male movie actors** List of female movie actors...
  
• Lists of actors
• List of film directors
  List of film directors by name
  
  This is a list of motion picture and television directors. A*Jim Abrahams*Abiola Abrams*J. J. Abrams*Tengiz Abuladze*Andrew Adamson...
  
• List of theatre directors
  List of theatre directors
  
  This is a list of theatre directors who have been active in the 20th and 21st centuries....
  
• List of film score composers
• List of comedians
  List of comedians
  
  A comedian is one who entertains through comedy, such as jokes and other forms of humour....
  
• List of clowns
  List of clowns
  
  Circus-style...
  
• List of sportspeople
  List of sportspeople
  
  There are a variety of articles listing people of a particular sport. People on these lists should be in some way noteworthy in their sport and should ideally have wikipedia articles of their own....
  
• List of magicians
  List of magicians
  
  This is a list of Magic , illusionists, mentalists, escapologists, and other practitioners of stage magic. For a list of witches, Magician s, and other practitioners of magic , see: List of occultists....
  
• List of circuses and circus owners
• Lists of musicians
• List of professional wrestlers
  List of professional wrestlers
  
  This is an incomplete list of professional wrestlers, sports commentator, Manager , Road Agent s and other workers associated in professional wrestling categorised up into promotion of which the wrestlers are mainly associated:...
  

See also

• Entertainment
  Entertainment
  
  Entertainment is an activity designed to give people pleasure or relaxation. An audience may participate in the entertainment passively as in watching opera or a movie, or actively as in games....
  
• Theatre
  Theatre
  
  Theatre is the branch of the performing arts defined by Bernard Beckerman as what "occurs when one or more actor, isolated in time and/or Theater , present themselves to Audience." By this broad definition, theatre has existed since the dawn of man, as a result of human tendency for story telling....
  
• Performance
  Performance
  
  A performance, in performing arts, generally comprises an event in which one group of people behave in a particular way for another group of people ....
  
• Drama
  Drama
  
  Drama is the specific Mode of fiction Mimesis in performance. The term comes from a Ancient Greek word meaning "Action " , which is derived from "to do" ....
  

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