Forward
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Forward can refer to:
- A Forward contract, in Finance - an agreement between two parties to buy or sell an asset at a pre-agreed future point in time.
- A position in various sports:
- A forward is an umbrella term for centres and wingers in ice hockey
- Small forward or power forward position in basketball.
- Attackers in football (soccer), also known as strikers.
- In Rugby union, forward refers to the 8 players who take part in the scrum - see Rugby union positions.
- The Forward, a Jewish-American newspaper.
- Forward, the publication of the Socialist League (often called the "Forward Group") in Canada during the 1970s and 1980s.
- Forward, the newspaper of Birmingham City Council.
- Robert Forward, a United States physicist and science fiction writer.
- Kadima (Hebrew for forward), an Israeli political party.
- Forward, a social democratic political party in Greenland.
- The so-named e-mail virus hoax (No article yet)
- Presumptuous, as in "Aren't you being a bit forward by giving me your room key ?".
- Forward, pronounced "forrard", refers to the front-most part of a ship and is the opposite to aft.