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.

Types of entertainment[]

Exhibition entertainment[]

• Amusement parks
• Art exhibits
• Fairs
• Festivals
• Museums
• Trade shows
• Traveling carnivals
• Travelling exhibition
• Water parks
• Wax museums

Live entertainment[]

• Air shows
• Banquet
• Burlesque
  • American burlesque
  • Neo-Burlesque
  • Victorian burlesque
• Cabaret
• Circus
  • Contemporary circus
• Comedy clubs
• Concerts
  • Concert residencies
  • Concert tours
• Dance
• Discotheques
• Drag shows
• Drama
• Escape Rooms
• Fireworks
• Fashion shows
• Ice shows
• Improvisational theatre
• Magic
• Minstrel shows
• Music hall
• Musical theatre
• Nightclubs
• Operas
• Parades
• Parties
• Performance art
• Performing arts
  • Marching arts
    • Color guard
    • Drum and bugle corps
    • Indoor percussion ensemble
    • Marching band
    • Pep band
    • Winter guard
• Professional wrestling/Sports entertainment
• Puppet shows
• Raves
• Revues
• Sideshows
• Spectator sports
• Stand-up comedy
• Street theatre
• Strip clubs
• Symphonies
• Theatre
• Variety show
• Vaudeville
• Ventriloquism
• Video art
• Wild West shows

Mass media entertainment industry[]

• Live entertainment
  • Musical theatre
  • Plays
  • Performance art
  • Comedy
  • Drama
  • Sports
• Film
  • Film studios
  • Movie theaters / cinemas
  • Film score
  • Film production
  • Acting
• Broadcasting
  • Television
    • Television programs
      • Reality television
  • Radio
    • Radio programs
    • Podcast
• Animation
• Music industry
  • Composers and songwriters
  • Singers and musicians
  • Choirs
  • Orchestras
  • Concert bands
  • Karaokes
  • Concert hall
• News media
  • Web television
• Fashion industry
  • Modeling

Electronic entertainment[]

• Video game industry
  • Video games
• SMS content

History of entertainment[]

Entertainment by historical period[]

• Entertainment in the 16th century
• Entertainment during the Great Depression

History by entertainment type[]

History of exhibition entertainment[]

• History of amusement parks
• History of fairs
• History of museums
• History of theme parks
• History of wax museums

History of live entertainment[]

• History of busking
• History of the circus
• History of comedy
• History of dance
• History of fireworks
• History of nightclubs
• History of discotheques
• History of opera
• History of performance art
• History of plays
• History of magic
• History of sports
• History of striptease
• History of lap dancing
• History of theatre
• History of variety shows
• History of vaudeville

History of mass media entertainment[]

• History of animation
• History of film
• History of literature
• History of magazines
• History of the music industry
• History of new media
• History of radio
• History of sound recording
• History of television
• History of video games

Entertainment law[]

• Entertainment law
  • Copyright Term Extension Act

General concepts[]

• 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
• 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

Notable entertainers[]

• 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

See also[]

• 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

References[]

External links[]

• DMOZ Open Directory Project - listing for Entertainment