An action figure is a small posable model of a character. Collect action figures.
The name was invented so that boys could be sold something without calling it a doll. An action figure still in its box is worth several times one that was played with.
1nounaction figureA small posable model of a character.
“The action figure had lost one arm and half its paint.”
action figure is a toy.
Coined by Hasbro in 1964 to market a toy soldier without calling it a doll.
First coined by Hasbro in 1964 to market G.I. Joe.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA
Practised in Games & Toys