What Is Fun?

1. According to Spongebob…

2. According to Oxford…

enjoyment, amusement, or light-hearted pleasure

3. According to William Blake…

Fun I love, but too much fun is of all things the most loathsome.

4. According to YouTube, Fun is an artist that creates catchy pop music, such as “All the Pretty Girls”…

5. According to Andrew Jackson…

There is no pleasure in having nothing to do; the fun is having lots to do and not doing it.

6. According Google, the top result is…

http://www.funbrain.com/ FunBrain is the #1 site for online educational games for kids of all ages. (math, grammar, science, spelling, history)

7. According to Google Images, the top result is…

8. According to Etymonline.com…

“diversion, amusement,” 1727, earlier “a cheat, trick” (c.1700), from verb fun (1680s) “to cheat, hoax,” of uncertain origin, probably a variant of M.E. fonnen “befool” (c.1400). Stigmatized by Johnson as “a low cant word.” Older sense is preserved in phrase to make fun of (1737).

9. According to George Santayana…

Fun is a good thing but only when it spoils nothing better.

10. According to the artist Edward Henry Potthast…

(http://www.butlerart.com/pc_book/pages/edward_henry_potthast_1857.htm)

11. According to Thesaurus.com…

action, ball, beguilement, cheer, delight, diversion, enjoyment, entertainment, field day, fun, fun and games, gladdening, gratification, grins, high time, hilarity, hoopla, laughs, laughter, merriment, merry go round, mirth, picnic, play, pleasing, pleasure, regalement, whoopee

12. According to Frederick Buechner…

Children that we are, even you and I, who have given up so little, know in our hearts not only that it is more blessed to give than receive, but that it is also more fun — the kind of holy fun that wells up like tears in the eyes of the saints, the kind of blessed fun in which we lose ourselves and at the same time begin to find ourselves, to grow up into the selves we were created to be.  (From Secrets in the Dark)