Entertaiment is amusement in the form of a performance. The clown at your kid’s birthday party, the Broadway show, the stadium rock concert, and even your friends fighting over the last potato chip are all examples of entertainment. It may be a distraction from reality, but it can also lead to insight and intellectual growth. These example sentences were programmatically generated from corpora and are not intended to represent the opinion of Merriam-Webster or its editors.