Outline of entertainment
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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 topical guide to entertainment:
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[edit] Essence of entertainment
- Main article: Entertainment
[edit] Types of entertainment
Exhibition entertainment:
- Amusement parks - Art exhibits - Fairs - Museums - Theme parks - Trade shows - Wax museums
Live entertainment:
- Concerts - cooking - Dance - Drama - Fireworks - Musical theatre - Nightclubbing - Discotheques - Dancing - Operas - Parades - Performance art - Plays - Magic
Mass media entertainment:
- Films - Magazines - Music, Recordings - New media - Novels - Radio, Radio programs - Television, Television programs - Video games
[edit] History of entertainment
- Main article: History of entertainment
History of exhibition entertainment:
- History of amusement parks - History of art exhibitions - History of fairs - History of museums - History of theme parks - History of trade shows - History of wax museums
History of live entertainment:
- History of busking - History of the circus - History of comedy, History of comedy clubs - History of concerts - History of cooking - History of dance - History of drama - History of fireworks - History of musical theatre - History of nightclubs - History of discotheques - History of opera - History of parade - History of performance art - History of plays - History of magic - History of sports - History of striptease - History of lap dancing - History of strip clubs - History of theatre - History of variety shows - History of Vaudeville
History of mass media entertainment:
- History of film - History of magazines - History of the music industry - History of new media - History of novels - History of radio - History of radio programming - History of sound recording - History of television - History of television programs - History of video games
[edit] General entertainment concepts
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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 --
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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 --
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Teen idol -- Tightrope walking -- Trapeze --
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Unicycle --
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W
X, Y, Z
[edit] Famous entertainers
[edit] Entertainment lists
- Main article: List of entertainment topics
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[edit] See also
[edit] External links
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