popular entertainment
Mainstream leisure fare
Popular entertainment refers to amusements, performances, and media consumed by a wide general audience rather than specialists or elite circles.
The term encompasses television, movies, pop music, sports, video games, and similar diversions designed for mass appeal: Reality TV is popular entertainment at its most addictive.
The adjective popular distinguishes such fare from highbrow or niche pursuits.
- musicalsTheatrical works with songs
- animated seriesDrawn episodic television program
- circus actsTrained entertainment under canvas
- cinemaMotion picture theater
- televisionBroadcast viewing device
vaudeville · reality TV · stand-up comedy · live audience · podcasts · dance · soap operas · binge-watching · board games · magic shows · viral · streaming services · variety shows · video games · carnivals · theme parks · crowd · chart-topping
- melodramavillain, heroine, hero, damsel in distress, happy ending
- chapbookschapbooks, booklet, booklets, blue books, cheap print
popular entertainmenthigh art
Culturally elevated creative works
high culture · fine art · avant-garde · elite culture · avant-garde art
popular entertainmentwork
Effort toward a goal
labor · educational content · toil · drudgery · obligation