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

Finally, baseball fans can get an early jump on the start of the action by placing a 2025 MLB Futures Boost on a 3+ leg division winner parlay. —Thomas G. Moukawsher, Newsweek, 21 Mar. 2025

The senior adviser with the West Wing office closest to the action — the Oval Office — in President Trump's second term is Dan Scavino, one of his longest-serving inner circle aides. —Jennifer Jacobs, CBS News, 21 Mar. 2025

Even inspiring a young Damon to get in on the action. —Natalie Bennett, NBC News, 20 Mar. 2025

Rylance as Thomas Cromwell and Kate Phillips as Jane Seymour Photo: Nick Briggs The episodes are busy with rebellion, diplomacy, intrigue, but the action rarely leaves the darkened rooms of the Tudor court and the camera rarely leaves Cromwell. —Taylor Antrim, Vogue, 20 Mar. 2025

Rhymes for the action

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