- Outline of entertainment
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The following outline is provided as an overview of and topical guide to entertainment, entertainers and the entertainment industry.
Entertainment – any activity which provides a diversion or permits people to amuse themselves in their leisure time, and may also provide fun, enjoyment and laughter. Entertainment is generally passive, such as watching opera or a movie. Active forms of amusement, such as sports, are more often considered to be recreation.[1] Activities such as personal reading or practicing a musical instrument are considered to be hobbies.
Entertainment industry – industry that provides entertainment.
Contents
Types
Exhibition entertainment
- Amusement parks –
- Art exhibits –
- Fairs –
- Museums –
- Theme parks –
- Trade shows –
- Travelling exhibition –
- Wax museums –
Live entertainment
- Busking –
- Street theatre –
- Circus –
- Concerts –
- Dance –
- Fireworks –
- Magic –
- Musical theatre –
- Nightclubs –
- Discotheques –
- Operas –
- Parades –
- Performance art –
- Puppet shows –
- Spectator sports –
- Stand-up comedy –
- Comedy clubs –
- Strip clubs –
- Striptease –
- Lap dances –
- Theatre –
- Plays –
- Drama –
- Variety show –
- Vaudeville –
Mass media entertainment
- Films –
- Publishing –
- Literature –
- Magazines –
- Newspapers –
- Music –
- New media –
- Radio –
- Radio programs –
- Television –
- Video games –
History of entertainment
Entertainment by historical period
History by entertainment type
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 dance
- History of fireworks
- History of musical theatre
- History of nightclubs
- History of discotheques
- History of opera
- History of parades
- 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 literature
- History of magazines
- History of the music industry
- History of new media
- History of radio
- History of radio programming
- History of sound recording
- History of television
- History of television programs
- History of video games
General concepts
- Acrobatics –
- Aerial acts –
- Animal training –
- Applause –
- Beauty contest –
- Celebrity –
- Chat –
- Chinese yo-yo –
- Circus –
- Circus skills –
- Clown –
- Comedian –
- Comedy –
- Contact juggling –
- Contemporary circus –
- Contortion –
- Corde lisse –
- Devil sticks –
- Diabolo –
- Equilibristics –
- Fire breathing –
- Fire eating –
- Geisha –
- German wheel –
- Hand-to-hand balancing –
- Hoola hoop –
- Human cannonball –
- Humor –
- Horse riding –
- Internet humor –
- Ice skating –
- Impalement arts –
- Juggling –
- Knife throwing –
- List of beauty contests –
- List of persons who have won Academy, Emmy, Grammy, and Tony Awards –
- Magic –
- Mime –
- New media –
- Old time radio –
- Performing arts –
- Plate spinning –
- Radio –
- Radio programming –
- Rock opera –
- Rodeo clown –
- Roller skating –
- Sex business –
- Show business –
- Showstopper –
- Side show –
- Spanish web –
- Stiltwalking –
- Sword swallowing –
- Show jumping –
- Teen idol –
- Tightrope walking –
- Trapeze –
- Unicycle –
- [Ventriloquism]] –
Notable entertainers
Main article: Lists of entertainers- Lists of entertainers
- Lists of actors
- List of film and television directors
- List of theatre directors
- List of film score composers
- List of comedians
- List of clowns
- List of sportspeople
- List of magicians
- List of circuses and circus owners
- Lists of musicians
- List of professional wrestlers
See also
- Drama
- Performance
- Television
- Theatre
- Outline of dance
- Outline of film
- Outline of literature
- Outline of music
- Outline of sports
- Outline of theatre
References
- ^ "Entertainment". Dictionary.com. Lexi-co Publishing Group. 2007. http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/entertainment. Retrieved 2007-11-30.
External links
- DMOZ Open Directory Project - listing for Entertainment
Categories:- Entertainment
- Entertainment lists
- Wikipedia missing topics
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