Entertainment is a leisure activity consisting of an event and an audience that views the event and participates. This participation can be subtle, as in Theatres: Film, Opera or stageshows, or Orchestral symphony concerts wherein the applause due the performance or performing artists would be bad manners. In contrast, the sports entertainment industry feeds off audience participation— who can imagine the strange event attending a pro-wrestling bout, basketball or baseball game without cheering or booing the participants would experentially being happy.

The industry that provides entertainment is called the entertainment industry, and one distinction between what is meant by the term is the voluntary participation of the party being entertained, which may be passive (Opera) or active (Frantic shoot-em-up computer games) and the whole gamut of industry supported diversions in between (Baseball, Concerts, Football, Books, Television, film , striptease, and events like Karaoke).

Recreation, play, reading, and art appreciation may in some instances be confused with entertainment, but the difference is elementary—entertainments take two or more— even if one of the participants is a programmer for the obsolescent Amiga computer system who now happens to be deceased. Without the 'performance' of the artist and the participation of the viewer the event would and could not occur.

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Regional arts and entertainment events | Philadelphia Inquirer | 12/20/2009 http://bit.ly/69SomE
aldataylor (alda taylor) Sun, 20 Dec 2009 20:46:48 -0000
Regional arts and entertainment events | Philadelphia Inquirer | 12/20/2009 http://bit.ly/69SomE
Arts and Entertainment | The Independent UK - The Habit of Art ...: In The Habit of Art, the high-minded Carpen.. http://bit.ly/6f5vUd
Oondu (Oondu) Sun, 20 Dec 2009 20:20:57 -0000
Arts and Entertainment | The Independent UK - The Habit of Art ...: In The Habit of Art, the high-minded Carpen.. http://bit.ly/6f5vUd
Arts and Entertainment | The Independent UK - The Habit of Art ...: In The Habit of Art, the high-minded Carpen.. http://bit.ly/6f5vUd
KivuKivu (Kivu) Sun, 20 Dec 2009 20:20:55 -0000
Arts and Entertainment | The Independent UK - The Habit of Art ...: In The Habit of Art, the high-minded Carpen.. http://bit.ly/6f5vUd
Regional arts and entertainment events | Philadelphia Inquirer | 12/20/2009: Spirit rap A confession: We dismissed ... http://bit.ly/6cxzK5
lovemusicbeats (Monica) Sun, 20 Dec 2009 20:09:20 -0000
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Arts and social networking http://www.baltimoresun.com/entertainment/bal-ae.trendeight20dec20,0,3411602.story
theMGmarketing (MG Marketing) Sun, 20 Dec 2009 18:51:24 -0000
Arts and social networking http://www.baltimoresun.com/entertainment/bal-ae.trendeight20dec20,0,3411602.story
It has always struck me as odd that Entertainment shares a section w/ Obituaries. And that TV reviews precede visual arts. Thx Toronto Star
maggierust (Maggie Rust) Sun, 20 Dec 2009 17:40:49 -0000
It has always struck me as odd that Entertainment shares a section w/ Obituaries. And that TV reviews precede visual arts. Thx Toronto Star

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