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Action may refer to:

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

Movie[change | change source]

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[change | change source]

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[change | change source]

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[change | change source]

"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[change | change source]

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[change | change source]

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

Television and radio[change | change source]

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[change | change source]

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

Organizations[change | change source]

Businesses[change | change source]

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[change | change source]

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

Other organizations[change | change source]

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

Science, technology, and mathematics[change | change source]

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[change | change source]

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

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