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

## 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

### 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