# Action

Action may refer to:
* Action (philosophy), something which is done by a person
* 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

### Albums

* 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

* "Action" (Freddy Cannon 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 1994 song by Terror Fabulous featuring Nadine Sutherland
* "Action", a 2020 song by Black Eyed Peas from Translation
* "Action", a 1984 song by The Fits
* "Action", a 1960 song by Lance Fortune
* "Action", a 1988 song by Pearly Gates
* "Action", a 1988 song by Girlschool from Take a Bite
* "Action", a 1989 song by Gorky Park from Gorky Park (album)
* "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 Action Action Action Action", a 2008 song by We Are the Physics from We Are the Physics Are OK at Music

## 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 (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
* CBS Action (2009–2018), now known as CBS Justice
* Sky Sports Action, a TV channel

## Theatre

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

## Organizations
### Businesses

* 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
* The Action Network (branded as Action), an American sports betting analytics company

### Political parties

* Action (Cypriot political party), a Cypriot political alliance
* Action (Greek political party), a Greek political party
* Action (Italian political party), an Italian political party

### Other organizations

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

## 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 (mathematics)
** Continuous group action
** Semigroup action
* Ring Action (mathematics)
* 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
* Diia, a brand of e-governance in Ukraine

## Other uses

* Lawsuit or action