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[[File:Snowball fight at China.jpg|thumb|Children having fun playing with [[snow]]]]
[[File:Two surfers.jpg|thumb|upright|[[Surfing|Surfers]] enjoying their sport]]
'''Fun''' is defined by the ''[[Oxford English Dictionary]]'' as "
==Etymology and usage==
The word ''fun'' is associated with sports, entertaining media, high merriment,<ref>{{cite book|last=Bailey|first=Nathan|title=An universal etymological English dictionary: comprehending the derivations ...|url=https://archive.org/details/universaletymol00bail|year=1775|publisher=R. Ware, W. Innys|pages=FU|isbn=978-1-234-36393-2}}</ref> and amusement. Although its etymology is uncertain,<ref name=def/> it has been speculated that it may be derived from Middle English ''{{Lang|enm|fonne}}'' (fool) and ''{{Lang|enm|fonnen}}'' (the one fooling the other).<ref>{{cite book |last=Andreyev |first=Judith |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=yKRqAHhVa0gC&pg=PA26 |title=Wondering about Words: D'où Viennent Les Mots Anglais ? |publisher=Bréal; BREAL |year=2005 |isbn=978-2749503059 |pages=26}}</ref> An 18th century meaning (still used in [[Orkney]] and [[Shetland]]<ref name=def/>) was "cheat, trick, hoax", a meaning still retained in the phrase "to make fun of".<ref>{{cite book|last=Cousineau|first=Phil|title=The Painted Word: A Treasure Chest of Remarkable Words and Their Origins|year=2012|publisher=Cleis Press|isbn=978-1-936740-25-3|pages=156}}</ref>
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The way the word ''fun'' is used demonstrates its distinctive elusiveness and [[happiness]]. [[Phrase|Expressions]] such as "[[wikt:have fun|Have fun]]!" and "That was fun!" indicate that fun is pleasant, personal, and to some extent unpredictable. Expressions such as "I was [[making fun of]] myself" convey the sense that fun is something that can be amusing and not to be taken seriously. The adjective "funny" has two meanings, which often need to be clarified between a speaker and listener. One meaning is "amusing, jocular, droll" and the other meaning is "odd, quirky, peculiar". These differences indicate the evanescent and experiential nature of fun and the difficulty of distinguishing "fun" from "enjoyment".<ref>{{cite web |author=Alan Dix |title=Fun Systematically |url=http://www.comp.lancs.ac.uk/~dixa/papers/ECCE-fun-2004/ecce-alan-fun-panel.pdf |url-status= |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110613021607/http://www.comp.lancs.ac.uk/~dixa/papers/ECCE-fun-2004/ecce-alan-fun-panel.pdf |archive-date=2011-06-13 |access-date=November 1, 2010}}</ref>
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==Psychology==
[[File:"Fun, off the job keeps him on the Job" - NARA - 514789.jpg|thumb|left|upright|[[World War II]] era employment poster about the importance of fun]]
According to [[Johan Huizinga]], fun is "an absolutely primary category of life, familiar to everybody at a glance right down to the animal level."<ref>{{
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With the emergence of entertainment industry, fun is sold as a consumer product in the form of games, novelties, television, toys and other amusements. [[Marxism|Marxist]] sociologists such as the [[Frankfurt School]] criticise mass-manufactured fun as too calculated and empty to be fully satisfying.{{
==See also==
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* {{cite book |title=Having Fun |last=Yates |first=Vicki |year=2008 |publisher=Heinemann-Raintree Library |isbn=978-1-4034-9832-8 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=6vgebPeDPPUC&q=having+fun |access-date=4 February 2013}}
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