Action

Action may refer to:

  • Action (narrative), a literary mode
  • Action fiction, a type of genre fiction
  • Action game, a genre of video game
The Simple English Wiktionary has a definition for: Action and action.

Movie
  • Action movie, a genre of movie
  • Action (1921 movie), a movie by John Ford
  • Action (1980 movie), a movie by Tinto Brass
  • Action 3D, a 2013 Telugu language movie
  • Action (2019 movie), a Kollywood movie.

Music
  • Action (music), a characteristic of a stringed instrument
  • Action (piano), the mechanism which drops the hammer on the string when a key is pressed
  • The Action, a 1960s band

Albums
  • Action (B'z album) (2007)
  • Action! (Desmond Dekker album) (1968)
  • Action Action Action or Action, a 1965 album by Jackie McLean
  • Action! (Oh My God album) (2002)
  • Action (Oscar Peterson album) (1968)
  • Action (Punchline album) (2004)
  • Action (Question Mark & the Mysterians album) (1967)
  • Action (Uppermost album) (2011)
  • Action (EP), a 2012 EP by NU'EST
  • Action, a 1984 album by Kiddo

Songs
  • "Action" (Freddy Canon song) (1965), the theme song to the TV series Where the Action Is
  • "Action" (Sweet song) (1975), covered by various artists
  • "Action", a version of "Feeling This" by Blink-182
  • "Action", a 1984 song by The Fits
  • "Action", a 1960 song by Lance Fortune
  • "Action", a 1988 song by Girlschool from Take a Bite
  • "Action", a 1989 song by Gorky Park from Gorky Park (album)
  • "Action", a 1988 song by Pearly Gates
  • "Action", a 2003 song by Powerman 5000 from Transform
  • "Action", a 1972 song by Scorpions from Lonesome Crow
  • "Actions", a 1980 song by The Stingrays
  • "Action", a 1994 song by Terror Fabulous featuring Nadine Sutherland

Literature
  • Action! (novel), a novel in the Nancy Drew: Girl Detective series
  • Action (comics), a British comic book published in 1976–1977
  • Action Comics, a DC Comics comic book series
  • Action: A Book about Sex, a 2016 book by Amy Rose Spiegel
  • Action (newspaper), a newspaper of Oswald Mosley's British Union of Fascists

People
  • Action Bronson (born 1983), American rapper, reality television star, author, and talk show host

Television and radio
  • Action (Canadian TV channel)
  • Action (French TV channel)
  • The Action Channel (US TV channel), a subsidiary of Luken Communications
  • Action (radio), a 1945 radio program
  • Action (TV series), a comedy series on Fox in 1999–2000
  • Sky Sports Action, a TV channel

Theatre
  • Action (theatre), a principle in Western theatre practice
  • Action (play), a 1975 play by Sam Shepard

Organizations

Businesses
  • Action (store), a Dutch discount store chain with branches in many European countries
  • Action (supermarkets), an Australian supermarket chain
  • Actions Semiconductor, a Chinese semiconductor company
  • ACTION, an Australian public transport company

Political parties
  • Action (Cyprus), a Cypriot political alliance
  • Action (Greece), a Greek political party
  • Action (Italy), an Italian political party

Other organizations
  • ACTION (U.S. government agency), a former US government federal domestic volunteer agency

Science, technology, and mathematics
  • Action (physics), an attribute of the dynamics of a physical system
  • Action at a distance, an outdated term for nonlocal interaction in physics
  • Group action (mathematics)
    • Continuous group action
    • Semigroup action
  • Action (firearms), the mechanism that manipulates cartridges and/or seals the breech
  • Action! (programming language), for the Atari 8-bit family of microcomputers
  • Action (UML), in the Unified Modeling Language
  • Dudek Action, a Polish paraglider design

Other uses
  • Action (philosophy), something which is done by an agent
  • Lawsuit or action
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