the action

noun

: the most exciting or interesting activities that are happening in a particular place

The new theater places the audience closer to the center/middle of the action.

I moved to New York City to be (a) part of the action.

Examples of the action in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web

The basis of the action is that artists with accurate streaming data suffer when others have inflated figures, because their proportional share of Spotify’s royalty pool shrinks. —Jazz Monroe, Pitchfork, 3 Nov. 2025

Episodes, which will drop in three volumes, will feature interactive, immersive, and visually engaging 11-minute stories that put young viewers at the center of the action, according to Netflix. —Denise Petski, Deadline, 3 Nov. 2025

The author has written 18 books about the Navajo Tribal Police duo, providing an abundance of source material to draw from as the action-drama continues. —Christopher Rudolph, PEOPLE, 2 Nov. 2025

What once was an obstacle to allowing others to help, has come under new management, finally allowing the rest of the family to jump in on the action without fear of being micromanaged. —Patricia Shannon, Southern Living, 2 Nov. 2025

Rhymes for the action

• abstraction
• attraction
• compaction
• contraction
• detraction
• diffraction
• distraction
• exaction
• extraction
• impaction
• inaction
• infraction