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Summertime is a great time to get together with friends and enjoy the outdoors. Hosting a party is an excellent way to get to know your neighbors or to invite old friends over. Outdoor entertaining allows you to take advantage of nature's decorations, cutting down on cost and also on indoor cleaning. There are many ways to plan a... more »
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:See also Entertainment (disambiguation) and The Entertainer (disambiguation)
An entertainment is any activity which provides a diversion or permits people to amuse themselves in their leisure time.
Entertainment is typically passive - as in watching opera or a movie. Activities which involve participating in games or sports are more often considered to be recreation. Activities such as personal reading or practising a musical instruments are considered as hobbies.
The industry that provides entertainment is called the entertainment industry. There are many forms of entertainment, which cater for particular tastes. For example, there is cinema, theatre, sports, games, social dance which cater for different groups of people. These may also be grouped on the age of persons interested, such as child entertainment or adult entertainment. For example, puppets, clowns, pantomimes and cartoons tend to appeal to children, though adults may also find them enjoyable.
Forms of entertainment
There are many activities which people find entertaining, though the activities which one person may find entertaining may not be so to another person. The types of things which some people find entertaining would include the following.
Animation
Some people find animation to be entertaining. Similarly, some people find cartoons to be entertaining.
Cinema and theatre
Many people find cinema and/or theatre 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.
Comics
Comics comprise of text and drawings which convey an e read more at » http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Entertainment
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