# 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

## 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 (Yiddish: 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, 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 (sculptor), located in Birmingham before being destroyed by arson
* Forward, a statue by Jean Pond Miner Coburn in Madison, Wisconsin