Action

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Action may refer to:

• Action (philosophy), something which is done by a person
• Action principles the heart of fundamental physics
• Action (narrative), a literary mode
• Action fiction, a type of genre fiction
• Action game, a genre of video game

Film

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

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
• Action (newspaper), a newspaper of Oswald Mosley's British Union of Fascists
• Hareket, conservative magazine in Turkish which was named after action theory

People

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

Television and radio

• Action television a genre of television programming
• Action (Canadian TV channel)
• Action (French TV channel)
• Action Channel, a Japanese 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
• CBS Action (2009–2018), now known as CBS Justice
• Sky Sports Action, a TV channel
• Action Chugger, a locomotive in Chuggington

Theatre

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

Organizations

Science, technology, and mathematics

• Action (physics), an attribute of the dynamics of a physical system
• Action at a distance, nonlocal interaction in physics
• Group action
  • Continuous group action
  • Semigroup action
• Ring action
• Action (firearms), the mechanism that manipulates cartridges and/or seals the breech
• Action! (programming language), for Atari 8-bit computers
• Action (UML), in the Unified Modeling Language
• Diia, a brand of e-governance in Ukraine

Other uses

• Lawsuit or action

See also

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