Entertainment
Entertainment
Entertainment (pronunciation: /ˌɛntərˈteɪnmənt/) is a form of activity that holds the attention and interest of an audience or gives pleasure and delight. It can be an idea or a task, but is more likely to be one of the activities or events that have developed over thousands of years specifically for the purpose of keeping an audience's attention.
Etymology
The term "entertainment" is derived from the Old French word "entretenir", which means "to hold together" or "to hold in". It was first used in the English language in the late 15th century.
Related Terms
- Performing Arts: This is a form of art where artists use their voices, bodies or inanimate objects to convey artistic expression. It includes disciplines such as dance, music, opera, theatre and film.
- Media (communication): This refers to the communication outlets or tools used to store and deliver information or data. It includes every broadcasting and narrowcasting medium such as newspapers, magazines, TV, radio, billboards, direct mail, telephone, fax, and internet.
- Culture: This is an umbrella term which encompasses the social behavior and norms found in human societies, as well as the knowledge, beliefs, arts, laws, customs, capabilities, and habits of the individuals in these groups.
- Recreation: This is an activity of leisure, leisure being discretionary time. The "need to do something for recreation" is an essential element of human biology and psychology.
- Leisure: This is a period of time that can be spent relaxing, engaging in recreation, or otherwise indulging in freely chosen activities.
- Sport: This is all forms of competitive physical activity or games which, through casual or organized participation, at least in part aim to use, maintain or improve physical ability and skills while providing enjoyment to participants, and in some cases, entertainment for spectators.
- Game: This is a structured form of play, usually undertaken for entertainment or fun, and sometimes used as an educational tool.
- Film: This is a series of still images which, when shown on a screen, creates the illusion of moving images due to the phi phenomenon.
- Music: This is an art form, and cultural activity, whose medium is sound.
- Television: This is a telecommunication medium used for transmitting moving images in monochrome (black and white), or in color, and in two or three dimensions and sound.
- Theatre: This is a collaborative form of performing art that uses live performers, typically actors or actresses, to present the experience of a real or imagined event before a live audience in a specific place, often a stage.
- Dance: This is a performing art form consisting of purposefully selected sequences of human movement.
- Literature: This is any body of written works.
- Visual Arts: This is a class of art forms, including painting, sculpture, photography, printmaking and others, that focus on the creation of works which are primarily visual in nature.
External links
- Medical encyclopedia article on Entertainment
- Wikipedia's article - Entertainment
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