The phrase "action consists of" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when describing the components or elements that make up a particular action or process.
Example: "In this project, the action consists of planning, executing, and reviewing each phase to ensure success."
Alternatives: "action comprises" or "action includes".
The industrial action consists of targeted and selected strike action and industrial action short of strike.
The action consists of the opening and closing of seven doors.
The film includes some sex, a boxing match and an occasional burst of dancing, but most of the action consists of two characters in a room talking.
Hilda (who never appears) is a maid; the action consists of the increasingly mad struggle between her husband and her employer over who wants her more.
The fear never lets up — assaults arrive out of nowhere — but much of the action consists of hooded banter, dealmaking, and sharp elbowing.
What's more, much of that verb's action consists of going back and forth, back and forth, between two spots on a river or lake.
A physiological action consisting of the capability of modulating neurotransmitter release and/or action.
Reflex, in biology, an action consisting of comparatively simple segments of behaviour that usually occur as direct and immediate responses to particular stimuli uniquely correlated with them.
The cantilever self-weight and passing-by moving loads thus make the studs under biaxial load action consisting of longitudinal shear force and transverse bending-induced action.
The action consisted of the "Superglue 3" attaching ourselves to the building with glue and politely talking to customers about the bank's role in funding climate change-inducing projects.
Mr. Kaufman added that he knew young playwrights were in trouble when one recently told him he had written a play in which the entire dramatic action consisted of two people sitting at a table -- reading.
