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 (basketball)
  • 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

• Avanti! (Italian for forward), Italian socialist newspaper
• Forward (Greenland), social democratic political party in Greenland
• Kadima (Hebrew for forward), Israeli political party
• Socialist League Vpered ("Forward"), Russian political party
• Forward (Denmark), Danish political party
• La République En Marche!, sometimes translated as Forward!, French political party

Geography

Canada

• Forward, Saskatchewan

United States

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

Books and publications

• Forward!, a collection of short stories by Gordon R. Dickson 1985
• 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
• Avante! ("Forward!"), a publication of the Portuguese Communist Party
• Avanti! (Italian newspaper) ("Forward!"), a publication of the Italian Socialist Party
• Eteenpäin ("Forward"), a Communist Party USA Finnish-language newspaper in the United States
• Új Előre ("New Forward"), a Communist Hungarian-language newspaper in the United States
• Vorwärts ("Forward"), a publication of the Social Democratic Party of Germany
• Vorwärts! ("Forward!"), a radical German-language paper published in Paris in 1844, covering art and culture
• Vorwärts (Czechoslovak newspaper) ("Forward!"), a newspaper of the Communist Party of Czechoslovakia

Mottos and slogans

• "Forward", Wisconsin state motto
• "Forward", 2012 Barack Obama presidential campaign slogan

Music

• Forward (The Abyssinians album), 1982
• Forward (Ayla Brown album) or the title song, 2006
• Forward (Flame album), 2015
• Forward (Hoobastank album), 2000
• Forward (Turn album) or the title song, 2003
• "Naprej, zastava slave" ("Forward, the Flag of Glory"), the former Slovene anthem, originally titled "Naprej" (Forward!)
• "Forward" (song), by Beyoncé, 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, trucks made by Isuzu
• Foundation for Women's Health, Research and Development, a British charity
• Forward, a sculpture by Raymond Mason (sculptor), located in Birmingham before being destroyed by arson
• Forward, a statue by Jean Pond Miner Coburn in Madison, Wisconsin

See also

• Forwarding (disambiguation)
• Foreword (disambiguation)