The phrase "alternating action" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe a situation where two or more actions occur in turn or in a back-and-forth manner.
Example: "The film's plot features alternating action between the hero's journey and the villain's schemes."
Alternatives: "recurring action" or "interchanging action".
In the case of concrete iconic gestures, complex gesture strokes might occur, for instance, when someone traces the outline of a square, shows a repetitive action such as hammering, or depicts alternating action such as two weights oscillating on a scale (for discussion of different stroke types, see McNeill, 1992, p. 308; Kita, Van Gijn, & Van der Hulst, 1998, 2014).
Upon the alternating action of certain exoglycosidases (hexosaminidase and glucuronidase), cartilage matrix degradation may dominate and lead to the release of glycosaminoglycans from the extracellular matrix.
There are a lot of bold decisions in Netflix's reimagining of Jackson's novel, the best of which is turning the characters from the book into a family unit the Crane family and alternating the action between past and present.
These data suggest that an alternate action of thiols is important in their cytoprotective actions.
Under the repetitive load, the top layers of pavement structure are subjected to the alternate action of tensile and compressive strains, which would eventually lead to a fatigue failure of the pavement.
As described in Methods, selecting an alternate action for disrupted Axioms 8-11 is not straightforward.
We also assigned the alternate action of 'do nothing' to Axiom 4 (MATRIX production).
We speculate that alternate action of Caf1 and Ccr4 is required.
It should be noted that alternate action mechanisms for miRNAs also exist.
Setting the parameter to zero completely blocked execution of the prescribed action and, if specified, dictated an alternate action.
Across all subjects, the action-selection trials in which an alternate action to the previous trial was chosen (all "switch" trials, including non-repeat and repeat-reject trials), were compared with trials in which an alternate action was specified.
