Article: Entertaiment
Something that affords pleasure, diversion, or amusement: Solving the daily crossword puzzle is entertainment for many people. Also: agreeable occupation for the mind; a divertingly adventurous, comic, or picaresque novel.
Children’s entertainment often involves playing games and engaging in other activities that have a playful aspect, such as pretending to be someone or something else. Such activities help prepare them for adult responsibilities like child rearing or social interaction (through role play, group games and toys), and develop skills needed for sports, music and other forms of entertainment, such as motor skills.
Scheherazade is a famous example of an entertaining story that inspired retellings in other media, such as music by composers Rimsky-Korsakov and Ravel, films by Pasolini and Szymanowski, and innovative video games.