Ms. Bennett is a contributing editor in Opinion who writes on gender, politics and culture. I did something called survival camp as a teenager, an entirely voluntary activity, ostensibly for fun.

Fun, according to the Oxford English Dictionary: 1. A cheat or trick; a hoax, a practical joke. 2. a. Diversion, amusement, sport; also, boisterous jocularity or ...

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Search "how to have fun" on Google and literally billions of search results come up. People pay hundreds of dollars to hire party coaches and play coaches. There are seminars and workshops on how to ...

In the corpus of the science of fun, there is a type of enjoyment that goes against the grain of seeking comfort and ease: “Type II Fun” (academically more often referred to as “hard fun”). Although ...