This article looks at entertainment, including activities such as watching performances or reading that give people pleasure. It also covers the industry and technology that creates these forms of entertainment.
A famous example of entertainment is Scheherazade, a story in the Persian professional storytelling tradition that has inspired many musical pieces (by composers like Rimsky-Korsakov and Ravel), film adaptations, and innovative video games. This article’s main value is in its academically accepted, systematically built and area-oriented definitions of entertainment.