Forward

{{distinguish|Foreword}} {{wiktionary}} Forward is a relative direction, the opposite of backward.

'''Forward''' may also refer to: {{TOC right}}

==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'' ({{langx|yi|פֿאָרווערטס|links=no}}), 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 * {{lang|pt|Avante!}} ("Forward!"), a publication of the Portuguese Communist Party * {{lang|it|Avanti!|cat=no}} (newspaper) ("Forward!"), a publication of the Italian Socialist Party * {{lang|fi|Eteenpäin}} ("Forward"), a Communist Party USA Finnish-language newspaper in the United States * {{lang|hu|Új Előre}} ("New Forward"), a Communist Hungarian-language newspaper in the United States * {{lang|de|Vorwärts}} ("Forward"), a publication of the Social Democratic Party of Germany * {{lang|de|Vorwärts!}} ("Forward!"), a radical German-language paper published in Paris in 1844, covering art and culture * {{lang|de|Vorwärts|cat=no}} (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