Action - Definition and Overview

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Action can be used in different contexts:

• Action movie
• Action game
• Action Comics, an American comic book series featuring Superman
• Action, a British comics anthology of the 1970s
• In physics, the action is a crucial concept in Lagrangian mechanics
• In philosophy, action is effective will
• 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