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Entertaiment is a broad term for activities that provide enjoyment and amusement. It includes everything from watching movies and television, playing video games, and reading books for pleasure to participating in sports and other physical activities, attending concerts, or viewing visual art. It also includes social events, parties, celebrations, and other formal or informal gatherings.
What constitutes entertainment varies widely, and what may be considered entertainment for one person or group may not be entertaining to another. The word comes from the medieval Latin intertenere, which is a compound of the words inter and tenere (from the Indo-European root ten) meaning to hold inside.
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