performing (n.)

• acting
• action
• agency
• aping
• buffoonery
• business
• characterization
• conduct
• direction
• driving
• embodiment
• enactment
• execution
• exercise
• functioning
• gag
• ham
• handling
• hoke
• hokum
• imitation
• impersonation
• inaction
• incarnation
• management
• manipulation
• masquerade
• mimesis
• mimicry
• mummery
• occupation
• operation
• overacting
• pantomime
• patter
• performance
• personation
• personification
• playacting
• playing
• portrayal
• posing
• practice
• projection
• representation
• responsibility
• running
• serving
• slapstick
• steering
• stunt
• work
• working
• workings