Action

Action may refer to:

• Action (narrative), a literary mode
• Action fiction, a type of genre fiction
• Action game, a genre of video game

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

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