In physics, force is what, when unopposed, changes the motion of an object.

Force is also a dialectal term for a "waterfall".

Force or forces may also refer to:

Places

• Force, Marche, a municipality in Ascoli Piceno, Italy

• Forcé, Mayenne, France; a commune

• Force, Pennsylvania, an unincorporated community in Pennsylvania

• Fundy Ocean Research Centre for Energy, tidal power test site in Nova Scotia

People

• Anna Laura Force (1868-1952), American educator

The Force family of American drag racing:

John Force (born 1949), family patriarch; father of four daughters, three of whom are or have been racers themselves:

• Ashley Force Hood (born 1982)

• Brittany Force (born 1986)

• Courtney Force (born 1988)

Arts, entertainment, and media

Fictional entities

• Force (comics), a character in the Marvel Comics Iron Man titles

• Major Force, a fictional character in the DC Comics universe

Films

Force (film series), a series of Indian Hindi-language action-thriller films

• Force (2011 film), first installment of the series

• Force 2 (2016), second installment of the series

  Force (2014 film), an Indian Bengali-language film

Music

• Force, the early name of the Swedish band Europe

• Force (A Certain Ratio album), 1986

Force (Superfly album), 2012

• "Force" (Superfly song)

• "Force" (Alan Walker song), 2015

Other uses in arts, entertainment, and media

• Forcing (magic), a magician's technique sometimes called a "force"

• Sonic Forces, a video game

• FORCE (Villains and Vigilantes), a 1982 adventure for the role-playing game Villains and Vigilantes

Law, policing, and military

• Force (law), unlawful violence or lawful compulsion

Forces, the armed forces collectively of a nation's military

• Security forces, the name of the armed forces in some nations

• The force, the police force of a particular jurisdiction

Mathematics and science

• Brute force method, proof by exhaustion in mathematics

• Fundamental force, an interaction between particles that cannot be explained by other interactions

Sports

Teams

• Cleveland Force (disambiguation), defunct indoor soccer teams based in Northeast Ohio

• Georgia Force, an Arena Football League team

• Ipswich Force, an Australian basketball team

• Kansas City Force, an American women's gridiron football team

• San Antonio Force, an Arena Football League team that played during the 1992 season

• Western Force, an Australian rugby union team in the Super 14

Other

• FORCE (Formula One Race Car Engineering), a design and construction company within the Haas Lola Formula One team

• Force play, a situation in baseball where the runner is compelled to advance to the next base

Other uses

• Force (cereal), a wheat flake cereal

• Coming into force

• Force Motors, an Indian automotive company

• Force-feeding, the practice of feeding a human or other animal against their will

• Fuerza (political party) (English translation: Force), a political party in Guatemala

See also

• Armed forces (disambiguation)

• Brute force (disambiguation)

• Elite Force (disambiguation)

• Energy (disambiguation)

• Force 1 (disambiguation)

• Force 10 (disambiguation)

• Force B (disambiguation)

• Force Commander (disambiguation)

• Force field (disambiguation)

• Force majeure (disambiguation)

• Force of Nature (disambiguation)

• Force One (disambiguation)

• Force XXI (disambiguation)

• Forcing (disambiguation)

• Special forces (disambiguation)

• Taskforce (disambiguation)

• X force (disambiguation)