Noun

(en noun)

An activity designed to give pleasure, enjoyment, diversion, amusement, or relaxation to an audience, no matter whether the audience participates passively as in watching opera or a movie, or actively as in games.

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a show put on for the enjoyment or amusement of others

(obsolete) maintenance or support

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Admission into service; service.

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(obsolete) Payment of soldiers or servants; wages.

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The entertainment of the general upon his first arrival was but six shillings and eight pence.

Noun

(activities)

The state or quality of being active; nimbleness; agility; vigorous action or operation; energy; active force; as, an increasing variety of human activities.

Something done as an action or a movement.

Something done for pleasure or entertainment, especially one involving movement or an excursion.

* {{quote-magazine, date=2013-06-07, author=David Simpson

, volume=188, issue=26, page=36, magazine=(The Guardian Weekly) , title= Fantasy of navigation , passage=Like most human activities , ballooning has sponsored heroes and hucksters and a good deal in between. For every dedicated scientist patiently recording atmospheric pressure and wind speed while shivering at high altitudes, there is a carnival barker with a bevy of pretty girls willing to dangle from a basket or parachute down to earth.}}

Use (of internet, playstation, bank account etc.).