Action
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Template:Wiktionary Action may mean:
- Action (comic), a British comicbook of the 1970s.
- Action (fiction), an element of fiction
- Action (music)
- Action (philosophy), a certain kind of thing a person can do
- Action (physics), an assertion about the nature of motion
- Action (supermarket chain), an Australian supermaket chain.
- Action (TV series), a 1999 television series.
- "Action", the name of a single by the band Powerman 5000 from the album Transform.
Action may also mean:
- Social action, in sociology, an action that takes into account actions and reactions of other individuals
- The Action, a 1960s band
- Australian Capital Territory Internal Omnibus Network (ACTION), bus transportation
- Action game, a videogame genre.
- Action movie, a film genre that focus on spectacle and violence over complex plotting.
- Action genre, other media, such as animation, analogous to an action movie.
- Action programming language for Atari microcomputers.
- Civil action, a lawsuit
- Collective action, the provision of public goods through collaboration
- Direct action, a political term for acting on things that directly affect you.
- Firearm action, the system of operation that the firearm employs to seal the breech
- Group action in mathematics.
- Military action, a synonym for war
- Action as a genre, a synonym of adventure