Movement

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Movement may refer to:

Motion, change in position
Locomotion, active movement or travel
Transport, the movement of people, goods, signals and information
Defecation, sometimes called a bowel movement
Movement (clockwork), all the main parts of a watch
Nastic movements, rapid, reversible responses to non-directional stimuli
Intermittent mechanism, the device by which film is regularly advanced in a movie camera or projector
Wh-movement, a syntactic phenomenon
Movements (sacred dances), collected or authored by G. I. Gurdjieff
The Movement (literature), writers including Kingsley Amis, Philip Larkin, et. al

In music:

In social studies:

Art movement, a tendency or style in art with a specific common philosophy or goal
Church Movement, groups of Catholics following a specific spirituality
Cultural movement, change in the way a number of different disciplines approach their work
New religious movement, a religious, ethical, or spiritual grouping of fairly recent origin
Social movement, a type of group action

In politics:

Political movement, a social movement working in the area of politics
National Resistance Movement,a political organization in Uganda
Democratic Labor Party, a Australian political party also known as 'The Movement'

See also