Entertaiment is the act of providing amusement, recreation or distraction. Entertainment can be at any scale, from an individual selecting a private entertainment from the huge array of pre-recorded media available; to a meal adapted for two; to a performance intended for thousands. Entertainments often cross over different media and have demonstrated an almost unlimited potential for creative remix, ensuring that familiar forms continue to be reworked and reinterpreted.

Entertainment frequently touches on themes that the human mind was evolved to react deeply to, such as backstabbing and murders in social settings – something the mind was evolved to understand in order to function well in a world of others.