Outline of entertainment
The following outline provides an overview of and topical guide to entertainment and the entertainment industry:
Entertainment is any activity which provides a diversion or permits people to amuse themselves in their leisure time, and may also provide fun, enjoyment, and laughter. People may create their own entertainment, such as when they spontaneously invent a game; participate actively in an activity they find entertaining, such as when they play sport as a hobby; or consume an entertainment product passively, such as when they attend a performance.
The entertainment industry (informally known as show business or show biz) is part of the tertiary sector of the economy and includes many sub-industries devoted to entertainment. However, the term is often used in the mass media to describe the mass media companies that control the distribution and manufacture of mass media entertainment. In the popular parlance, the term show biz in particular connotes the commercially popular performing arts, especially musical theatre, vaudeville, comedy, film, fun, and music. It applies to every aspect of entertainment including cinema, television, radio, theatre, and music.
Amusement parks
Art exhibits
Fairs
Festivals
Museums
Trade shows
Traveling carnivals
Travelling exhibition
Vivariums
Aquariums
Water parks
Wax museums
Zoos
Entertainment in the 16th century
Entertainment during the Great Depression
Entertainment law
Copyright Term Extension Act
Acrobatics
Aerial acts
Animal training
Applause
Beauty pageant
Celebrity
Chinese yo-yo
Circus
Circus skills
Clown
Comedian
Comedy
Contact juggling
Contemporary circus
Contortion
Corde lisse
Cyr wheel
Devil sticks
Diabolo
Equilibristics
Fire breathing
Fire eating
Geisha
German wheel
Hand-to-hand balancing
Hula 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 industry
Show business
Showstopper
Sideshow
Spanish web
Stiltwalking
Sword swallowing
Show jumping
Teen idol
Tightrope walking
Trapeze
Unicycle
Ventriloquism
List of circuses and circus owners
List of clowns
List of comedians
List of film and television directors
List of film score composers
List of magicians
List of professional wrestlers
List of theatre directors
Lists of actors
Lists of entertainers
Lists of musicians
Lists of sportspeople
List of entertainment industry dynasties
Drama
Performance
Television
Theatre
Outline of dance
Outline of film
Outline of literature
Outline of music
Outline of performing arts
Outline of sports
Outline of theatre
Media of New York City
List of movie-related topics
Gambling
Cinema of the United States
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