Action

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Action may refer to:

• Action (philosophy)
• Action (physics), an attribute of the development of a system over a period of time
• In mathematics, transformations such as Monoid action and Group action
• Action (fiction), a term or art in fiction
• Action film, a genre of film
• Action game, a genre of video game

Businesses and organizations

• Action (store), a Dutch discount store-chain
• Action (supermarkets), an Australian supermarket chain
• ACTION, an Australian public transport company
• Action (French TV channel), a French television channel
• Action (TV channel), a Canadian digital cable channel
• Actions Semiconductor

Science and technology

• Action (UML), a specific piece of functionality in the Unified Modeling Language
• Structural load or action
• Actions, a building block of web applications on the Apache Struts framework
• Action! (programming language), a programming language for the Atari 8-bit family of microcomputers

Books and comics

• Action! (novel), the 6th volume of the Nancy Drew: Girl Detective series
• Action (literature), a term of art in literature
• Action (comics), a British comic book published in 1976–1977
• Action Comics, a DC Comics comic book series

Film, TV and theatre

• Action (theatre), a principle in Western theatre practice first developed by Konstantin Stanislavski as part of his System of acting training
• Action (play), a 1975 play by Sam Shepard
• Action (radio), a 1945 radio program
• Action (TV series), a comedy series on FOX in 1999–2000
• Action (1921 film), a 1921 film by John Ford
• Action (1989 film), a Bollywood film
• Action (2013 film), an upcoming Tollywood film

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
• Action Records (music) an indie record label

Albums

• Action (B'z album), 2007
• Action! (Desmond Dekker album),1968
• Action, a 1984 album by Kiddo
• Action! (Oh My God album)
• Action (Punchline album)
• Action (Uppermost album)
• Action (Question Mark & the Mysterians album), 1967
• Action (Oscar Peterson album), 1968
• Action (EP), a 2012 EP by South Korean boy band NU'EST
• Action Action Action, a 1965 album by jazz saxophonist Jackie McLean also known as Action

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”, by Lance Fortune, 1960
• “Action”, by Scorpions from Lonesome Crow, 1972
• “Action”, by The Fits, 1984
• “Action”, by Girlschool from Take a Bite, 1988
• “Action”, by Gorky Park from Gorky Park (album), 1989
• “Action”, by Pearly Gates (singer), 1988
• “Action”, a song by Terror Fabulous featuring Nadine Sutherland, 1994
• “Action”, erroneous title for a version of "Feeling This" by Blink-182
• “Actions”, by The Stingrays (Bristol band), 1980

Other uses

• ACTION (U.S. government agency), a former United States government agency
• Action, a break dancer in the New York City Breakers
• Firearm action, the mechanism that manipulates cartridges and/or seals the breech

See also

• Action! (disambiguation)
• Action Force (disambiguation)
• Action Jackson (disambiguation)
• Action Man (disambiguation)
• Action theory (disambiguation)
• Acteon (disambiguation)
• Actaeon (disambiguation)
• All pages beginning with "action"
• All pages with titles containing "action"