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Entertainment is a leisure activity consisting of an event and an audience that views the event and participates. This participation can be subtle, as in
Theatres: Film, Opera or
stageshows, or Orchestral
symphony concerts wherein the applause due the performance or
performing artists would be bad manners. In contrast, the sports entertainment industry feeds off audience participation— who can imagine the strange event attending a
pro-wrestling bout,
basketball or
baseball game without cheering or booing the participants would experentially be.
The industry that provides entertainment is called the
entertainment industry, and one distinction between what is meant by the term is the voluntary participation of the party being entertained, which may be passive (Opera) or active (Frantic shoot-em-up computer games) and the whole gamut of industry supported diversions in between (Baseball, Concerts,
Football, Books, Television, film , striptease, and events like
Karaoke).
Recreation, play, reading, and art appreciation may in some instances be confused with entertainment, but the difference is elementary—entertainments take two or more— even if one of the participants is a programmer for the obsolescent
Amiga computer system who now happens to be deceased. Without the 'performance' of the artist and the participation of the viewer the event would and could not occur.