List of basic entertainment topics
- For a more comprehensive list, see the List of entertainment topics.
Entertainment is an event, exhibition, performance, or activity designed to give pleasure to an audience (although, for example, in the case of a computer game the "audience" may be a single individual). The audience may participate in the entertainment passively as in watching opera or actively as in computer games. The industry that provides entertainment is called the entertainment industry.
The following outline is provided as an overview of and introduction to entertainment:
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Essence of entertainment
- Main article: Entertainment
Types of entertainment
Exhibition entertainment:
- Amusement parks - Art exhibits - Fairs - Museums - Theme parks - Trade shows - Wax museums
Live entertainment:
- Busking - Circus - Comedy, Comedy clubbing - Concerts - cooking - Dance - Drama - Fireworks - Musical theatre - Nightclubbing - Discotheques - Dancing - Operas - Parades - Performance art - Plays - Magic - Spectator sports, Sports events - Striptease, Lap dances, Strip clubbing, - Theatre
Mass media entertainment:
- Films - Magazines - Music, Recordings - New media - Novels - Radio, Radio programs - Television, Television programs - Video games
History of entertainment
- Main article: History of entertainment
Basic entertainment concepts
A
Acrobatics -- Aerial acts -- Animal training -- Annie Fratellini -- Applause -- Archaos -- Austin Miles --
B
Beauty contest (List of beauty contests) --
C
Celebrity -- Chat -- Chinese yo-yo -- Circus -- Cirque du Soleil -- Clown -- Comedian -- Comedy -- Contact juggling -- Contortion -- Corde lisse --
D
Devil Sticks -- Diabolo --
E
F
Fire breathing -- Fire eating --
G
Geisha -- German wheel --
H
Hand-to-hand balancing -- Hoola hoop -- Human cannonball -- Humor -- Horse-Riding --
I
Internet humor -- Ice Skating -- Impalement arts
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Juggling --
K
L
List of beauty contests -- List of people who have won an Emmy, a Grammy, an Oscar and a Tony Award --
M
N
New Media --
O
Old Grey Whistle Test -- Old time radio --
P
Performing arts -- Plate spinning -- P.T. Barnum --
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R
Radio -- Radio programming -- Ringling Brothers and Barnum and Bailey Circus -- Rock opera -- Rodeo clown --
S
Sex business -- Stars in Their Eyes -- Show business -- Showstopper -- Side show -- Spanish Web -- Stilting -- Sword swallowing -- Skating -- Show-Jumping --
T
Teen idol -- Tightrope walking -- Trapeze --
U
Unicycle --
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W
X, Y, Z
Famous entertainers
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Main article: Lists of entertainers
Entertainment lists
- Main article: List of entertainment topics
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