About Entertaiment
Entertainment is any activity that diverts attention from serious or mundane matters, allowing people to enjoy themselves in leisure time. People may create their own entertainment, such as when they spontaneously invent a game; they can participate actively in entertainment, such as when they play sport as a hobby; or they can passively consume entertainment, such as when they watch a performance.
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The word entertainer derives from the Latin intertenere, the prefix inter meaning “inside” and tenere, derived from the Indo-European root ten, meaning to stretch or lengthen.