Action

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Action may refer to:

In music

• Action (album), a 2004 album by Punchline
• Action (music), a characteristic of a stringed instrument
• Action (piano)
• "Feeling This", a song by blink-182, once released under the name "Action"
• The Action, a 1960s band
• "Action", a song by Powerman 5000
• "Action", a song by Raven from their 1981 album Rock Until You Drop
• Action (Jackie McLean album), a 1964 album by Jackie McLean
• Action, a character in the Bernstein musical, West Side Story.

In other areas

• Action (UML), a specific piece of functionality in the Unified Modeling Language
• Action (radio), a 1945 radio program aka Action Theater
• Action (comic)

• Action (philosophy), something a person can do.
• Action (physics), an assertion about the nature of motion.

• Action (supermarket chain), an Australian supermaket chain.
• Action (TV series)
• Action figure, a posable figurine.
• Action genre in various formats, specifically:
  • Action film, a movie genre.
  • Action game, a video game genre.
• Action programming language for Atari microcomputers
• ACTION (Australian Capital Territory Internal Omnibus Network), a public transport company
• Lawsuit, sometimes called a civil action.
• Collective action, the provision of public goods through collaboration.
• Human action, see Hannah Arendt
• Direct action, a political term
• Firearm action, a system of operation in a firearm.
• Group action in mathematics.
• Structural load, as referred to in Eurocodes.
• War, or military action.
• Social action, which takes into account actions and reactions of other individuals.
• Strike action, a deliberate absense from work
• Action (Play) a play by Sam Shepard.