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
Water parks
Wax museums
Zoos
Air shows
Awards ceremony
Banquet
Burlesque
American burlesque
Neo-Burlesque
Victorian burlesque
Cabaret
Circus
Contemporary circus
Comedy clubs
Concerts
Concert residencies
Concert tours
Ceremony
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