Executing a response results in bindings between features of present stimuli and features of the response. If features in an event file then repeat in a later episode, the whole event file is retrieved and can affect the following action (so called binding effects, Hommel et al., 2001; Frings et al., 2020). Binding seems not only to play an important role in the control of simple individually planned actions (stimulus-response binding; Moeller & Frings, 2019) but also in coordinating more complex actions (response-response binding). While it is typically assumed that the execution of an action leads to binding with and retrieval of other responses, the ideomotor principle would suggest that the perception of a stimulus directly triggers an activation of the associated response. In this study (n=60), we used an adapted response-response binding paradigm and investigated whether response execution is necessary to trigger retrieval of a bound response. The findings indicate that both the execution of responses and the mere presentation of a stimulus that is associated with the retrieving response led to response-response binding effects. Apparently, activating the cognitive representation of a response suffices for this response to trigger retrieval of other bound features.