Contents 1 Music and culture 2 Politics and society 3 Military 4 Businesses and organizations 5 Science and technology 6 Other

Action may refer to:

[ Music and culture

• Action (philosophy), something a person can do
• Action (music), a characteristic of a stringed instrument
• Action (album), a 2004 album by Punchline
• Action (B'z album), a 2007 album by B'z
• Action (piano), the mechanism which drops the hammer on the string when a key is pressed
• Tracker Action (organ), the mechanism which lets the wind flows trough the pipe when a key is pressed
• Action (Song), former name of the single Feeling This, by the Pop Punk band Blink-182
• The Action, a 1960s band
• Action (radio), a 1945 radio program aka Action Theater
• Action (comic), a British comic book published in 1976-1977
• Action (TV series), a short-lived comedy series that aired on FOX during the 1999-2000 season
• Action painting, a style of painting
• Action genre in various formats, specifically:
  • Action film, a movie genre
  • Action game, a computer/video game genre
• Action (1921 film), a 1921 film directed by John Ford
• Action (newspaper), published by British Union of Fascists

[ Politics and society

• Collective action, the provision of public goods through collaboration
• Direct action, an instance of political activism
• Social action, which takes into account actions and reactions of other individuals
• Strike action, a deliberate absence from work
• Lawsuit, sometimes called a civil action

[ Military

• military action (combat) is a scale of combat within the hierarchy of combat^[1] of squads, platoons, companies and battalions.
• action (naval) term used to refer to preparing and engaging a ship in combat
• action (signal) signal number 13 'Prepare for Action' in the British Royal Navy since the late 18th century
• action (gunnery) term refers to the movement of the breach in an artillery ordnance piece

[ Businesses and organizations

• Action (supermarkets), an Australian supermarket chain
• ACTION (Australian Capital Territory Internal Omnibus Network), a public transport company
• ACTION, a former United States government agency
• Action Ambulance, an emergency care and ambulance service

[ Science and technology

• Action (physics), an assertion about the nature of motion
• Firearm action, a system of operation in a firearm
• Structural load, as referred to in Eurocodes

• Group action in mathematics
• Action (UML), a specific piece of functionality in the Unified Modeling Language
• Action programming language for Atari microcomputers
• Struts Action, a key building block of web applications based on the Apache Struts framework.

[ Other

• Sexual intercourse