Results for action

1. A process or condition of acting or moving, as opposed to rest; the doing of something; exertion of power
or force, as when one body acts on another; the effect of power exerted on one body by another; agency;
activity; operation; as, the action of heat; a man of action.




Synonyms and related words:



accomplished fact
coup
gest
movement
shake-up
accomplishment
course of action
gestures
movements
shift
achievement
culture pattern
gimmick
moves
shoving match
act
custom
go
mythos
skirmish
acta
dealings
goings-on
naval combat
slant
actions
decision
good time
observable behavior
social science
activeness
decree
great fun
occupation
solution
activism
deed
ground combat
operancy
sortie
activity
deliverance
guise
operation
spirit
acts
demarche
hand
operations
sport
ad hoc measure
demeanor
hand-to-hand combat
order
staff work
address
denouement
hand-to-hand fight
overseas operations
stand-up fight
adventure
deportment
handiwork
overt act
steering
aerial combat
design
handling
passage
step
affectation
determination
high old time
passage of arms
stir
affray
development
high time
pattern
stopgap
agency
device
house-to-house combat
performance
story
air
diagnosis
improvisation
performing
stratagem
amphibious operations
dictum
incident
peripeteia
street fight
anagnorisis
direction
influence
picnic
strength
angle
discharge
initiative
pis aller
stroke
answer
dodge
innards
pitched battle
stroke of policy
architectonics
dogfight
job
plan
structure
architecture
doing
judicial process
play
struggle
argument
doings
jury-rig
pleasant time
stunt
armored combat
doom
jury-rigged expedient
plot
style
artifice
drive train
last expedient
poise
subject
atmosphere
driving
last resort
political activism
subplot
automatic control
dry run
last shift
port
suit
award
effect
laughs
pose
suit at law
background
effectiveness
lawsuit
posture
supervisory control
ball
effectuation
legal action
power
switch
battle
effort
legal case
power train
tactic
battle royal
electronic control
legal proceedings
practice
tactics
bearing
embroilment
legal process
praxis
tauromachy
behavior
encounter
legal remedy
precedent
temporary expedient
behavior pattern
endeavor
line
presence
thematic development
behavioral norm
energy
litigation
procedure
theme
behavioral science
engagement
liveliness
proceeding
thing
big time
enterprise
local color
proceedings
thing done
blow
episode
logistics
process
tone
brush
exchange of blows
lovely time
production
topic
bullfight
execution
machinery
prognosis
tour de force
business
exercise
maintien
pronouncement
transaction
carriage
exertion
makeshift
prosecution
trick
cascade control
expedient
management
quarrel
trump
case
exploit
maneuver
reaction
tug-of-war
catastrophe
fable
maneuvers
recognition
turn
cause
fait accompli
manipulation
remedy
tussle
cause in court
falling action
manner
res gestae
twist
characterization
feat
manners
resolution
undertaking
clash
feedback control
means
resort
verdict
clash of arms
fight
measure
resource
vigor
clockworks
fighting
mechanism
responsibility
vim
cockfight
finding
method
rising action
vitality
color
fire fight
methodology
robot control
war game
combat
fluid operations
methods
ruling
war plans
combined operations
folkway
mien
rumble
watchworks
complication
force
militancy
running
way
comportment
fray
military operations
running fight
way of life
condemnation
fulfillment
minor operations
scheme
ways
conduct
fun
mission
scramble
wheels
conflict
fun and games
modus vivendi
scrimmage
wheels within wheels
consideration
function
mood
scuffle
work
continuity
functioning
motif
secondary plot
working
contrivance
funmaking
motion
sentence
working hypothesis
control action
game
motions
servo control
working proposition
countermove
gear
move
servomechanism
workings