Entertaiment is an important activity in human life that enhances the quality of a person’s life by providing amusement and enjoyment. It is a form of recreation that varies in degree and mode but the core activities – storytelling, music, theatre, dance and games – remain recognisably the same across centuries. The Scheherazade story, for example, inspired Rimsky-Korsakov and Ravel to make orchestral works, Pasolini to make a film and modern video games. The word is sometimes abbreviated to entmt on fliers and in industry news publications when space is at a premium.
