Entertainment is an activity designed to give pleasure or relaxation to an audience (although in the case of a computer game the "audience" may be only one person). The audience may participate in the entertainment passively as in watching opera, or actively as in computer games.]The playing of sports and reading of literature are usually included in entertainment, but these are often called recreation, because they involve some active participation beyond mere leisure.The industry that provides entertainment is called the entertainment industry.Examples of entertainment:AnimationWikipe-tan sailor fuku is a character featured in Japanese animation.Animation provides moving images. Cartoons are a comedic form of animation.] Anime or TV manga refers to animation originating from Japan in the Occidental use of the word. In Japan the word refers to all animation. It may contain adult themes and futuristic locations. Cinema:Cinema provides moving pictures as an art form. Cinema may also be called films or movies.Theatre:Theatrical entertainment; the Theatre RougeTheatre encompasses live performance such as plays, musicals, farces, monologues and pantomimes.Circus: Circus act - fire breatherCircus acts include acrobats, clowns, trained animals, trapeze acts, hula hoopers, tightrope walkers, jugglers, unicyclists and other stunt-oriented artists.Comedy:Comedy provides laughter and amusement. The audience is taken by surprise, by the parody or satire of an unexpected effect or an opposite expectations of their cultural beliefs. Slapstick film, one-liner joke, observational humor are forms of comedy which have developed since the early days of jesters and traveling minstrels. Comics: Felix the Cat Comic StripComics comprise of text and drawings which convey an entertaining narrative.] Several famous comics revolve around super heroes such as Superman, Batman. Marvel Comics and DC Comics are two publishers of comic books. Manga is the Japanese word for comic and print cartoons.Caricature is a graphical entertainment. The purpose may vary from merely putting smile on the viewers face, to raising social awareness, to highlighting the moral vices of a person being caricaturised. Dance: DancingDance refers to movement of the body, usually rhythmic and to music, ] used as a form of expression, social interaction or presented in a spiritual or performance setting. Dance includes ballet, cancan, charleston, Highland fling, folk dance, sun dance, modern dance, polka and many more. Reading: Reading for pleasureReading comprises the interpretation of written symbols. An author, poet or playwright sets out a composition for publication to provide education or diversion for the reader. The format includes paperback or hard cover books, magazines, periodicals, puzzle books, crossword magazines and coloring books. Fantasy, horror, science fiction and mystery are forms of reading entertainment.Games:Playing BingoGames provides relaxation and diversion usually following a rule set. Games may be played by one person for their own entertainment, or by a group games. Games may be played for achievement or monetary benefit such as gambling or bingo. Racing, chess or checkers may develop physical or mental prowess. Games may be geared for children, or may be played outdoors such as lawn bowling. Equipment may be necessary to play the game such as a deck of cards for card games, or a board and markers for board games such as Monopoly, or backgammon. A few may be ball games, Blind man's bluff, board games, card games, children's games, Croquet, Frisbee, Hide and seek, Number games, Paintball, and Video games to name a few.Music:Musical Piece: Ludwig van Beethoven - Symphony no. 5 in C minorMusic is an art form combining rhythm, melody, harmony and or vocals for entertainment, ceremonial or religious purposes. Other forms of Entertainment:Corporate Entertainment and Conventions arise from an industrial or business setting for clients and or staff. Lecture, Magic, Morris dancers entertain in the grounds of Wells Cathedral, Wells, EnglandMass media, Revue, Television, Radio. Mass media is a term used to denote a section of the media specifically designed to reach a very large audience such as the population of a nation state. It was coined in the 1920s with the advent of nationwide radio networks, mass-circulation newspapers and magazines, although mass media (like books and manuscripts) were present centuries before the term became common. The term public media has a similar meaning: it is the sum of the public mass distributors of news and entertainment across media such as newspapers, television, radio, broadcasting, which may require union membership in some large markets such as Newspaper Guild, AFTRA, & text publishers. Electronic media and print media include: * Broadcasting, in the narrow sense, for radio and television. * Various types of discs or tapes. In the 20th century, these were mainly used for music. Video and computer uses followed. * Film, most often used for entertainment, but also for documentaries. * Internet, which has many uses and presents both opportunities and challenges. Blogs and podcasts (such as news, music, pre-recorded speech, and video) * Mobile phones, often called the 7th Mass Media, used for rapid breaking news, short clips of entertainment like jokes, horoscopes, alerts, games, music, and advertising * Publishing, including electronic publishing * Video games, which have developed into a mass form of media since cutting-edge devices such as the PlayStation 3, XBox 360, and Wii broadened their use.