Entertaiment
The word entertainment carries the idea of fun and laughter, although many forms of entertainment can also have serious purposes. For example, professional sports, like fencing or archery, originally developed from military training and hunting activities and are now spectator sports; a satire may be intended to challenge authority; or an art form like music can inspire the work of composers (Rimsky-Korsakov, Ravel and Szymanowski) or film directors like Pasolini, or even be used as innovative video games. The connections between these different forms of entertainment are illustrated by the way that stories such as the Scheherazade story in the Persian professional storytelling tradition have inspired a wide range of retellings in other media.