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Fight or Flight (2025 film)
Fight or Flight (2025) is an American action comedy, James Madigan's directorial debut, starring Josh Hartnett as exiled agent Lucas Reyes protecting a target called The Ghost on an assassin-filled Bangkok to San Francisco flight; released by Vertical May 9, 2025, $3.2M US gross, 76% on Rotten Tomatoes.
Fight Song (Rachel Platten song)
"Fight Song" is a 2015 pop song by American singer-songwriter Rachel Platten that became her breakout hit, reaching number 1 in the UK and number 8 on the Billboard Hot 100.
Fight-or-flight response
Fight-or-flight response, also called the acute stress response, is the sympathetic-adrenal medullary reaction to threat coined by Walter Cannon in 1915, driven by epinephrine and norepinephrine release.
Fighter (2024 film)
Fighter (2024) is a Hindi-language aerial action thriller directed by Siddharth Anand, starring Hrithik Roshan, Deepika Padukone, and Anil Kapoor as IAF Air Dragons pilots in a fictionalized 2019 Pulwama and Balakot story; released 25 January 2024, later on Netflix.
Fighter ace culture and mythology
Fighter ace culture and mythology traces how the five-victory ace, coined by French newspapers in World War I, became a propaganda hero and film archetype.
Fighter aircraft
A fighter aircraft, or fighter jet, is a military aircraft designed primarily to destroy other aircraft in air-to-air combat, with specialized fighters emerging by 1916 in World War I.
Fighter of the Destiny (择天记)
Fighter of the Destiny (择天记) is a Chinese xuanhuan novel by Mao Ni, serialized from 2014, and a 55-episode 2017 TV adaptation starring Lu Han and Guli Nazha.
Fighter pilot
A fighter pilot, also called a combat pilot, is a military aviator who flies fighter aircraft in air-to-air and air-to-surface combat, including weapons delivery and electronic warfare.
Fighter Squadron 1 (United States Navy)
Fighter Squadron 1 (VF-1), the US Navy "Wolfpack," was a NAS Miramar F-14A Tomcat fighter squadron (1972–1993), first to deploy the Tomcat on Enterprise, a Desert Storm combat squadron with over 540 sorties, distinct from three earlier VF-1 squadrons.
Fighter-bomber
A fighter-bomber (Jagdbomber) is a fighter aircraft modified or mainly used to attack surface targets with bombs while keeping enough performance to defend itself in air combat.
Fighting (2009 film)
Fighting is a 2009 American action-drama film directed by Dito Montiel, starring Channing Tatum and Terrence Howard, about a street counterfeiter drawn into New York's underground bare-knuckle fighting circuit.
Fighting Fantasy
Fighting Fantasy is a gamebook series by Steve Jackson and Ian Livingstone, first published by Puffin in 1982 with The Warlock of Firetop Mountain; dice-based Skill, Stamina, and Luck rules distinguish it from pure branching books like Choose Your Own Adventure, with over 20 million copies sold.
Fighting game
Fighting game genre: one-on-one close-range combat in 2D or 3D arenas. Defined by Street Fighter II (1991), frame-based 60 fps mechanics, delay-based versus rollback netcode, and the arcade-rooted FGC, distinct from beat 'em ups and platform fighters.
Fighting in ice hockey
Fighting in ice hockey: bare-fisted combat between players, penalized with a 5-minute major in the NHL but a game misconduct (ejection) under IIHF and most amateur rules; rates have declined sharply since a 1987 peak.
Fighting Nerds
Fighting Nerds: São Paulo MMA team founded 2014 by Pablo Sucupira and Caio Borralho, motto 'Estudar, Pensar, Lutar, Evoluir', famous for Borralho, Prates, Ruffy, and Jean Silva's UFC run and nerd glasses.
Fighting Oligarchy tour
Fighting Oligarchy tour: Bernie Sanders's rally tour launched February 22, 2025, joined by Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, criticizing Trump, Elon Musk, and billionaire influence, drawing crowds up to 36,000 and backing 2026 progressive primary candidates.
Fighting with My Family
Fighting with My Family (2019) is Stephen Merchant's biographical comedy-drama about WWE wrestler Paige (Saraya Bevis) and her Norwich wrestling family, based on a Channel 4 documentary, starring Florence Pugh and Dwayne Johnson.
Fighting words
Fighting words, from Chaplinsky v. New Hampshire (1942), are face-to-face insulting speech outside First Amendment protection; no Supreme Court conviction upheld since 1942, narrowed by R.A.V. and Virginia v. Black.
Figitidae
Figitidae (figitids) is a family of cynipoid parasitoid wasps whose larvae attack fly and lacewing larvae; Charipinae are aphid hyperparasitoids. Twelve subfamilies worldwide, 127 species in Britain and Ireland, classification still unstable.
Figitumumab
Figitumumab (CP-751,871), Pfizer's fully human IgG2 monoclonal antibody against IGF-1R; phase II NSCLC promise ended in phase III failure with no survival gain, increased deaths, and hyperglycemia; development discontinued.
Figlinae
Figlinae (singular figlina) were Roman pottery and brick workshops producing bricks, tiles, dolia, and amphorae, known mainly from stamped products; distinct from the Esquiline district Figlinae and the road station Ad Figlinas near Genoa.
FIGLU Test
FIGLU test, or formiminoglutamic acid test, a urine test measuring formiminoglutamic acid after an oral histidine load; elevated levels indicate folate or vitamin B12 deficiency or liver disease.
Figma (software company)
Figma, Inc. is a San Francisco software company founded in 2012 by Dylan Field and Evan Wallace, known for its browser-based collaborative design tool and its 2025 initial public offering.
Figma (software)
Figma, also known as Figma.com, is a collaborative browser-based interface design tool for websites and mobile apps, founded by Dylan Field and Evan Wallace in 2012 and launched in 2016.
Figment (Disney)
Figment is a small purple dragon mascot of EPCOT's Imagination Pavilion at Walt Disney World, created by Imagineers Tony Baxter and Steve Kirk and debuting March 1983 in Journey Into Imagination; originally green, recolored purple for sponsor Kodak, star of three ride versions.
FIGO classification of uterine fibroids
The FIGO classification of uterine fibroids, introduced in 2011, assigns each fibroid a type from 0 to 8 by location, guiding symptom prediction and surgical approach.
FIGS (company)
FIGS is an American direct-to-consumer brand in Santa Monica, California, selling premium scrubs to healthcare professionals. It was founded in 2013 and went public in 2021.
Figsbury Ring (United Kingdom)
Figsbury Ring, also called Chlorus Camp, is a scheduled monument near Salisbury, Wiltshire: an Iron Age univallate hillfort enclosing a probable Neolithic henge, excavated by the Cunningtons in 1924, now a National Trust and SSSI site.
Figueira da Foz
Figueira da Foz, a city and municipality at the mouth of the Mondego river on Portugal's Atlantic coast; village in 1771, city in 1882; 60,670 residents (2023), 379 km2, known for its port, beaches, casino, and eroding, dredged coastline.
Figueirense
Figueirense Futebol Clube, also called Furacão or Time do Povo, is a Florianópolis, Santa Catarina football club founded 12 June 1921, an 18-time state champion, Copa do Brasil 2007 runner-up, now a SAF playing Série C.