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