Entertainment is a broad category that includes all activities that provide amusement or enjoyment, including watching movies and TV shows, listening to music, playing sports and games, reading and learning literature, and viewing visual art. Entertainment can be provided for a few people at a private event, or on an enormous scale, such as the theater or dance performances that are performed for thousands of viewers. Click on a collocation to see more examples of the word in context. These examples are programmatically compiled from corpora and may not reflect the views of Merriam-Webster or its editors. Send us feedback.