Action

Action may refer to:

Music and culture

Action (philosophy), something a person can do
Action (music), a characteristic of a stringed instrument
Action (Punchline album), a 2004 album by Punchline
Action (B'z album), a 2007 album by B'z
Action, a break dancer in the New York City Breakers
Action, a 1984 album by Kiddo
Action, a 1967 album by the band ? and the Mysterians
Action (piano), the mechanism which drops the hammer on the string when a key is pressed
Tracker action (organ), the mechanism which lets the wind flows through the pipe when a key is pressed
"Action" (song), a 1976 song by the band Sweet
"Action", the former name of the single "Feeling This", by Blink-182
The Action, a 1960s band
Action (radio), a 1945 radio program aka Action Theater
Action (comic), a British comic book published in 1976-1977
Action (TV series), a short-lived comedy series that aired on FOX during the 1999-2000 season
Action painting, a style of painting
Action (fiction), a genre in various formats, specifically:
Action film, a movie genre
Action game, a computer/video game genre
Action (1921 film), a 1921 film directed by John Ford
Action (newspaper), published by British Union of Fascists
Action (Pool Cue and accessory Line)

Politics and society

Collective action, the provision of public goods through collaboration
Direct action, an instance of political activism
Social action, which takes into account actions and reactions of other individuals
Strike action, a deliberate absence from work
Lawsuit, sometimes called a civil action

Military

military action (combat), a scale of combat within the hierarchy of combat
action (naval) term used to refer to preparing and engaging a ship in combat
action (signal) signal number 13 'Prepare for Action' in the British Royal Navy since the late 18th century
action (gunnery) term refers to the movement of the breech in an artillery ordnance piece

Businesses and organizations

Action (supermarkets), an Australian supermarket chain
ACTION (Australian Capital Territory Internal Omnibus Network), a public transport company
ACTION (U.S. government agency), a former United States government agency
Action Ambulance, an emergency care and ambulance service

Science and technology

Action (physics), an attribute of the development of a system over a period of time used in the principle of least action
Firearm action, a system of operation in a firearm
In pan-European building codes (Eurocodes), a concept similar to Structural load
Group action in mathematics
Action (UML), a specific piece of functionality in the Unified Modeling Language
Action programming language for Atari microcomputers
Actions, a key building block of web applications based on the Apache Struts framework
Spot Horn Action 2009 Monster Truck Parts Company out of Lake Stevens, WA. Also known in Pop Culture as being, "Tougher than Chuck Norris."

Other

Action! (novel), the sixth volume in the Nancy Drew Girl Detective series
Action (genre)
Action (literature)
Action (Def Leppard song)
Action (TV)
Action (TV channel), a Canadian digital cable channel

Translation

The word "Action" occurs as such in the following languages: English, French, Dutch, Swedish.

Translation(s) in other languages: Czech: Akce, German: Aktion, Spanish: Acción, Galician: Acción, Italian: Azione, Malay: Aksi, Japanese: アクション, Polish: Akcja, Portuguese: Ação, Romanian: Acţiune (dezambiguizare), Russian: Акция, Slovak: Akcia, Serbian: Акција, Finnish: Aktio, Tagalog: Aksyon.