Action

**Action** may refer to:
- Action (narrative), a literary mode
- Action fiction, a type of genre fiction
- Action game, a genre of video game

## Movie

- Action movie, a genre of movie
- _Action_ (1921 movie), a movie by John Ford
- _Action_ (1980 movie), a movie by Tinto Brass
- _Action 3D_, a 2013 Telugu language movie
- _Action_ (2019 movie), a Kollywood movie.

## 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 Canon 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 1984 song by The Fits
- "Action", a 1960 song by Lance Fortune
- "Action", a 1988 song by Girlschool from _Take a Bite_
- "Action", a 1989 song by Gorky Park from _Gorky Park (album)_
- "Action", a 1988 song by Pearly Gates
- "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", a 1994 song by Terror Fabulous featuring Nadine Sutherland

## Literature

- _Action!_ (novel), a novel in the Nancy Drew: Girl Detective series
- _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

## 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
- Sky Sports Action, a TV channel

## Theatre

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

### 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

### Political parties

- Action (Cyprus), a Cypriot political alliance
- Action (Greece), a Greek political party
- Action (Italy), 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, an outdated term for nonlocal interaction in physics
- Group action (mathematics)
    - Continuous group action
    - Semigroup action
- 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
- Dudek Action, a Polish paraglider design

## Other uses

- Action (philosophy), something which is done by an agent
- Lawsuit or action