FWD

FWD may refer to:

• Front-wheel drive, a common method of vehicle propulsion
• FWD (Famine, War, and Drought), Campaign from USAID
• Free World Dialup (now simply FWD), a non-commercial Voice over IP network
• Falling weight deflectometer (Falling Weight Deflectometer test), a structural test on road and airport pavements
• Far Western District, a geographical district of the Barbershop Harmony Society
• Fire weather outlook, a forecast of fire weather conditions by the U.S. National Weather Service
• An archaic term for four-wheel drive (4WD or AWD is preferred today)
• The Four Wheel Drive Auto Company of Clintonville, Wisconsin, later the FWD Corporation
• An abbreviation of "Forward", appended to the beginning of e-mail subject lines when sending a received message on to someone else ("forwarding")
• FWD.us, a lobbying group in the United States founded by Silicon Valley entrepreneurs (led by Mark Zuckerberg), focused on immigration reform and improving education and enabling technological breakthrough.
• Free Working Distance, a term used in microscopy to describe the distance between the focused object and the objective lens