Forward
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Forward can refer to:
- Relative direction, where forward is the opposite of backward
Sports positions
- Striker, football (soccer)
- Point forward, basketball
- Power forward (basketball)
- Small forward, basketball
- Forward (ice hockey)
- Power forward (ice hockey)
- There are eight forwards in rugby union positions
Finance
- Forward contract, an agreement between two parties to buy or sell an asset at a pre-agreed future point in time
Media
- The Forward, a Jewish-American newspaper
- Forward, the publication of the Canadian Socialist League (often called the "Forward Group") in Canada during the 1970s and 1980s
- Forward (Birmingham), the newspaper of Birmingham City Council (UK)
Forward is a new Syrian magazine, published by Haykal Media, and run by Sami Moubayed, a Syrian writer. Music
- Forward (album), an album recorded by American Idol semi-finalist Ayla Brown
People
- Robert L. Forward, a United States physicist and science fiction writer
Politics
- Forward (Greenland), a social democratic political party in Greenland
- Kadima (Hebrew for forward), an Israeli political party
- FORWARD - the charity that campaigns against Female Genital Mutilation, child marriage, and other gender-based discriminatory practices
Other
- Forward, an adverb meaning towards the bow of a ship or boat; the opposite to aft
- "Forward", the motto of the the state of Wisconsin, United States and the city of Birmingham,UK.
[edit] See also
- The similarly-pronounced foreword