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


                                 Film                                 
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* 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.


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* 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 
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* '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 
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* "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                              
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* '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                                
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* Action Bronson (born 1983), American rapper, reality television
star, author, and talk show host


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


 Businesses 
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* 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 
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* Action (Cyprus), a Cypriot political alliance
* Action (Greece), a Greek political party
* Action (Italy), an Italian political party


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


                 Science, technology, and mathematics                 
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* 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                              
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* Action (philosophy), something which is done by an agent
* Lawsuit or action


                               See also                               
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* Action Force (disambiguation)
* Action Jackson (disambiguation)
* Action Man (disambiguation)
* Action theory (disambiguation)
* Acteon (disambiguation)
* Actaeon (disambiguation)
* Acción (disambiguation)
* Structural load, forces, deformations, or accelerations applied to a
structure or its components
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