# Forward

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Forward is a [relative direction](/source/relative_direction), the opposite of backward.

'''Forward''' may also refer to:
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== People ==
*[Forward (surname)](/source/Forward_(surname))

==Sports==
* [Forward (association football)](/source/Forward_(association_football))
* [Forward (basketball)](/source/Forward_(basketball)), including:
** [Point forward](/source/Point_forward)
** [Power forward](/source/Power_forward)
** [Small forward](/source/Small_forward)
* [Forward (ice hockey)](/source/Forward_(ice_hockey))
** [Power forward (ice hockey)](/source/Power_forward_(ice_hockey))
* In rugby football:
** [Forwards (rugby league)](/source/Forwards_(rugby_league)), in rugby league football
** [Forwards (rugby union)](/source/Forwards_(rugby_union)), in rugby union football
* [Forward Sports](/source/Forward_Sports), a Pakistan sportswear brand
* [BK Forward](/source/BK_Forward), a Swedish club for association football and bandy

==Politics==
* [Avante (political party)](/source/Avante_(political_party)) (Portuguese for ''forward''), a political party in Brazil
* [Endavant](/source/Endavant) (Catalan for ''forward''), a socialist pro-independence organization in Catalonia
* [Forward (Belgium)](/source/Forward_(Belgium)), a political party in Belgium
* [Forward (Bosnia and Herzegovina)](/source/Forward_(Bosnia_and_Herzegovina)), a political party in Bosnia and Herzegovina
* [Forward (Denmark)](/source/Forward_(Denmark)), a political party in Denmark
* [Forward (Greenland)](/source/Forward_(Greenland)), a political party in Greenland
* [Forward Party (United States)](/source/Forward_Party_(United_States)), a centrist American political party
* [Kadima](/source/Kadima) (Hebrew for ''forward''), a political party in Israel
* [La République En Marche!](/source/La_R%C3%A9publique_En_Marche!) (sometimes translated as ''Forward!''), a political party in France
* [Socialist League Vpered](/source/Socialist_League_Vpered) ("Forward"), a political party in Russia

==Geography==
===Canada===
* [Forward, Saskatchewan](/source/Forward%2C_Saskatchewan)
===United States===
* [Forward, Wisconsin](/source/Forward%2C_Wisconsin)
* [Forward Township, Allegheny County, Pennsylvania](/source/Forward_Township%2C_Allegheny_County%2C_Pennsylvania)
* [Forward Township, Butler County, Pennsylvania](/source/Forward_Township%2C_Butler_County%2C_Pennsylvania)

==Books and publications==
* ''[Forward!](/source/Forward!)'', a 1985 collection of short stories by Gordon R. Dickson
* ''[Forward: Stories of Tomorrow](/source/Forward%3A_Stories_of_Tomorrow)'', a 2019 collection of science fiction short stories by various authors
* [Forward Prizes for Poetry](/source/Forward_Prizes_for_Poetry)
* ''[The Forward](/source/The_Forward)'' ({{langx|yi|פֿאָרווערטס|links=no}}), a Jewish-American, Yiddish/English newspaper from New York
* [''Forward'' (Scottish newspaper)](/source/Forward_(Scottish_newspaper)), socialist weekly founded in 1906
* [''Forward'' (Sri Lanka)](/source/Forward_(Sri_Lanka)), a defunct English-language Communist Party weekly newspaper
* [''Forward'' (Syrian magazine)](/source/Forward_(Syrian_magazine)), an English-language newsmagazine 2009–2011
* {{lang|pt|[Avante!](/source/Avante!)}} ("Forward!"), a publication of the Portuguese Communist Party
* [{{lang|it|Avanti!|cat=no}} (newspaper)](/source/Avanti!_(newspaper)) ("Forward!"), a publication of the Italian Socialist Party
* {{lang|fi|[Eteenpäin](/source/Eteenp%C3%A4in)}} ("Forward"), a Communist Party USA Finnish-language newspaper in the United States
* {{lang|hu|[Új Előre](/source/%C3%9Aj_El%C5%91re)}} ("New Forward"), a Communist Hungarian-language newspaper in the United States
* {{lang|de|[Vorwärts](/source/Vorw%C3%A4rts)}} ("Forward"), a publication of the Social Democratic Party of Germany
* {{lang|de|[Vorwärts!](/source/Vorw%C3%A4rts!)}} ("Forward!"), a radical German-language paper published in Paris in 1844, covering art and culture
* [{{lang|de|Vorwärts|cat=no}} (Czechoslovak newspaper)](/source/Vorw%C3%A4rts_(Czechoslovak_newspaper)) ("Forward!"), a newspaper of the Communist Party of Czechoslovakia

== Mottos and slogans ==
*"Forward", [Wisconsin state motto](/source/List_of_U.S._state_and_territory_mottos)
*"Forward", motto of the English city of [Birmingham](/source/Birmingham)
*"Forward", [Barack Obama 2012 presidential campaign](/source/Barack_Obama_2012_presidential_campaign) slogan

==Music==
* [''Forward'' (The Abyssinians album)](/source/Forward_(The_Abyssinians_album)), 1982
* ''Forward'' ([Hoobastank](/source/Hoobastank) album), 2000
* [''Forward'' (Ayla Brown album)](/source/Forward_(Ayla_Brown_album)) or the title song, 2006
* [''Forward'' (Turn album)](/source/Forward_(Turn_album)) or the title song, 2003
* [''Forward'' (Brand New Heavies album)](/source/Forward_(Brand_New_Heavies_album)), 2013
* [''Forward'' (Flame album)](/source/Forward_(Flame_album)), 2015
* "[Naprej, zastava slave](/source/Naprej%2C_zastava_slave)" ("Forward, the Flag of Glory"), the former Slovene anthem, originally titled "Naprej" (Forward!)
* "Forward" (song), by Beyoncé from [Lemonade](/source/Lemonade_(album)), 2016
* "Forward", a song by Band-Maid from ''[Maid in Japan](/source/Maid_in_Japan)''

==Other uses==
* [Email forwarding](/source/Email_forwarding), a mechanism by which a mail server sends the emails of one of its users to another address.
* [Forward (aircraft)](/source/Forward_(aircraft)), front part of an aircraft, spacecraft, or ship
* [Forward declaration](/source/Forward_declaration) in computer programming, is a partial declaration before it is completely defined
* [Forward converter](/source/Forward_converter), electronic circuit
* [Forward contract](/source/Forward_contract), a financial agreement to buy or sell an asset at a pre-agreed future point
* [Isuzu Forward](/source/Isuzu_Forward), a line of medium-duty trucks
* [Landwind Forward](/source/Landwind_Forward), a subcompact sedan
* [Foundation for Women's Health, Research and Development](/source/Foundation_for_Women's_Health%2C_Research_and_Development), a British charity
* ''Forward'', a sculpture by [Raymond Mason](/source/Raymond_Mason_(sculptor)), located in Birmingham before being destroyed by arson
* ''[Forward](/source/Forward_(statue))'', a statue by [Jean Miner Coburn](/source/Jean_Miner_Coburn) in Madison, Wisconsin

==See also==
* [FWD](/source/FWD_(disambiguation))
* [Forwarding (disambiguation)](/source/Forwarding_(disambiguation))
* [Foreword (disambiguation)](/source/Foreword_(disambiguation))

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