Forward is a relative direction, the opposite of backward.

Forward may also refer to:

People

  • Forward (surname)

Sports

  • Forward (association football)
  • Forward (basketball), including:
  • Point forward
  • Power forward
  • Small forward
  • Forward (ice hockey)
  • Power forward (ice hockey)
  • In rugby football:
  • Forwards (rugby league), in rugby league football
  • Forwards (rugby union), in rugby union football
  • Forward Sports, a Pakistan sportswear brand
  • BK Forward, a Swedish club for association football and bandy

Politics

  • Avante (political party) (Portuguese for forward), a political party in Brazil
  • Endavant (Catalan for forward), a socialist pro-independence organization in Catalonia
  • Forward (Belgium), a political party in Belgium
  • Forward (Bosnia and Herzegovina), a political party in Bosnia and Herzegovina
  • Forward (Denmark), a political party in Denmark
  • Forward (Greenland), a political party in Greenland
  • Forward Party (United States), a centrist American political party
  • Kadima (Hebrew for forward), a political party in Israel
  • La République En Marche! (sometimes translated as Forward!), a political party in France
  • Socialist League Vpered ("Forward"), a political party in Russia

Geography

Canada

  • Forward, Saskatchewan

United States

  • Forward, Wisconsin
  • Forward Township, Allegheny County, Pennsylvania
  • Forward Township, Butler County, Pennsylvania

Books and publications

  • Forward!, a 1985 collection of short stories by Gordon R. Dickson
  • Forward: Stories of Tomorrow, a 2019 collection of science fiction short stories by various authors
  • Forward Prizes for Poetry
  • The Forward (), a Jewish-American, Yiddish/English newspaper from New York
  • Forward (Scottish newspaper), socialist weekly founded in 1906
  • Forward (Sri Lanka), a defunct English-language Communist Party weekly newspaper
  • Forward (Syrian magazine), an English-language newsmagazine 2009–2011
  • ("Forward!"), a publication of the Portuguese Communist Party
  • (newspaper) ("Forward!"), a publication of the Italian Socialist Party
  • ("Forward"), a Communist Party USA Finnish-language newspaper in the United States
  • ("New Forward"), a Communist Hungarian-language newspaper in the United States
  • ("Forward"), a publication of the Social Democratic Party of Germany
  • ("Forward!"), a radical German-language paper published in Paris in 1844, covering art and culture
  • (Czechoslovak newspaper) ("Forward!"), a newspaper of the Communist Party of Czechoslovakia

Mottos and slogans

  • "Forward", Wisconsin state motto
  • "Forward", motto of the English city of Birmingham
  • "Forward", Barack Obama 2012 presidential campaign slogan

Music

  • Forward (The Abyssinians album), 1982
  • Forward (Hoobastank album), 2000
  • Forward (Ayla Brown album) or the title song, 2006
  • Forward (Turn album) or the title song, 2003
  • Forward (Brand New Heavies album), 2013
  • Forward (Flame album), 2015
  • "Naprej, zastava slave" ("Forward, the Flag of Glory"), the former Slovene anthem, originally titled "Naprej" (Forward!)
  • "Forward" (song), by Beyoncé from Lemonade, 2016
  • "Forward", a song by Band-Maid from Maid in Japan

Other uses

  • Email forwarding, a mechanism by which a mail server sends the emails of one of its users to another address.
  • Forward (aircraft), front part of an aircraft, spacecraft, or ship
  • Forward declaration in computer programming, is a partial declaration before it is completely defined
  • Forward converter, electronic circuit
  • Forward contract, a financial agreement to buy or sell an asset at a pre-agreed future point
  • Isuzu Forward, a line of medium-duty trucks
  • Landwind Forward, a subcompact sedan
  • Foundation for Women's Health, Research and Development, a British charity
  • Forward, a sculpture by Raymond Mason, located in Birmingham before being destroyed by arson
  • Forward, a statue by Jean Miner Coburn in Madison, Wisconsin

See also

  • FWD
  • Forwarding (disambiguation)
  • Foreword (disambiguation)