Forward

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

 * Avante (political party) (Portuguese for forward), a political party in Brazil
 * 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

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 (פֿאָרווערטס), 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 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, 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