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Entertaiment encompasses activities, performances and media content intended to amuse and divert people from daily routines and responsibilities. From children’s play to modern sedentary engagement with a screen, entertainers use their skills and products to engage audiences, often providing them with an escape from the hardships of life. Entertainment can be adapted to scale, from a single individual choosing a product from a huge range of pre-recorded choices; to a dinner for two; to performances staged for thousands or even the global population. Some activities, such as cooking, once necessary skills for survival, have developed into serious sports and professions and then into entertainment for a global audience.