Action
Action can be used in different contexts:
- In philosophy, action is effective will
- In sociology, action can either mean a basic action (one that has a meaning) or a more advanced social action, one that not only has a meaning but is directed at other humans and induces a responce; see also forms of activity and interpersonal relations
- Action movie
- Action game
- Action Comics, an American comic book series featuring Superman
- Action, a British comic of the 1970s
- In physics, the action is a crucial concept in Lagrangian mechanics
- Civil action or lawsuit
- Collective action
- Direct action is the political term for acting on things that directly affect you.
- Slang for sexual activity
- Military action
- Firearm action
- A 1960s band called The Action.
- In group theory, a group action.
- Action programming language for Atari microcomputers
- ACTION, a theory for acting.
- Action, a 1999 television series.
- ACTION (bus service), public transport system in Canberra, Australia
- the mechanical parts linking a keyboard to the "business end" of the device
- Refers to the distance separating the strings and the fretboard on the guitar