Action

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Action may refer to:

Arts and entertainment

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

Broadcasting

• Action (Canadian TV channel), a Canadian digital cable channel
• Action (French TV channel), a French television 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

Film

• "Action" (2014 film), directed by Sayantan Mukherjee
• Action film, a genre of film
• Action (1921 film), directed by John Ford
• Action (1980 film), directed by Tinto Brass
• Action 3D, a 2013 Telugu language film
• Action, the working title for the Bollywood film released under the name Agnichakra

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! (Oh My God album), 2002
• Action (Punchline album), 2004
• Action (Uppermost album), 2011
• 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
• 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", 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, 1988
• "Action", by Powerman 5000 from Transform, 2003
• "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, 1980

Literature

• Action! (novel), the 6th volume of the Nancy Drew: Girl Detective series
• Action (narrative), a term of art in literature
• 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

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

Commerce

• Action (store), a Dutch discount store-chain
• Action (supermarkets), an Australian supermarket chain
• Actions Semiconductor, a Chinese fabless semiconductor company
• Dudek Action, a Polish paraglider design
• ACTION, an Australian public transport company

Political parties

• Action (Cyprus), a Cypriot political alliance
• Action (Greece), a Greek political party

Science and technology

• Action (physics), an attribute of the dynamics of a physical system
• Structural load, forces, deformations, or accelerations applied to a structure or its components
• 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
• Group action
  • Continuous group action
  • Semigroup action

Other uses

• Action (philosophy), something which is done by an agent
• ACTION (U.S. government agency), a former US government federal domestic volunteer agency

See also

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