The word(s) "action" appears 24 time(s) in 23 verse(s) in Quran in Muhammad Pickthal translation.

(11) A defeated host are (all) the factions that are there.

(12) And (the tribe of) Thamud, and the folk of Lot, and the dwellers in the wood: these were the factions.

(13) The folk of Noah and the factions after them denied (their messengers) before these, and every nation purposed to seize their messenger and argued falsely, (thinking) thereby to refute the Truth. Then I seized them, and how (awful) was My punishment.

(14) And he who believed said: O my people! Lo! I fear for you a fate like that of the factions (of old);

(15) But the factions among them differed. Then woe unto those who do wrong from the doom of a painful day.

(16) Those who disbelieve and turn (men) from the way of Allah, He rendereth their actions vain.

(17) Now when ye meet in battle those who disbelieve, then it is smiting of the necks until, when ye have routed them, then making fast of bonds; and afterward either grace or ransom till the war lay down its burdens. That (is the ordinance). And if Allah willed He could have punished them (without you) but (thus it is ordained) that He may try some of you by means of others. And those who are slain in the way of Allah, He rendereth not their actions vain.

(18) And those who disbelieve, perdition is for them, and He will make their actions vain.

(19) That is because they are averse to that which Allah hath revealed, therefor maketh He their actions fruitless.

(20) That will be because they followed that which angereth Allah, and hated that which pleaseth Him. Therefor He hath made their actions vain.