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FreeRTOS
FreeRTOS is an open-source real-time operating system kernel for microcontrollers, created by Richard Barry around 2003 and stewarded by Amazon Web Services since 2017 under the MIT license.
Freerunning
Freerunning (l'art du déplacement tradition) is the creative, acrobatic branch of parkour named by Sébastien Foucan, adding flips and expressive movement to obstacle travel; first competition Red Bull Art of Motion, 2007.
Freesat
Freesat is a subscription-free satellite television service in the United Kingdom, launched in 2008 as a BBC and ITV joint venture, offering over 170 channels to about 1 million homes.
Freescale Semiconductor
Freescale Semiconductor was an American semiconductor company headquartered in Austin, Texas, created from Motorola's semiconductor business in 2004 and merged into NXP Semiconductors in 2015.
Freesia
Freesia (Freesia Eckl. ex Klatt) is a genus of 16 cormous Iridaceae species native from Kenya to South Africa, named for Friedrich Freese; fragrant cut flowers, over 110 million stems sold yearly in the UK.
Freestone energy center
The Freestone Energy Center is a 1,099 MW natural gas-fired combined-cycle power station in Freestone County near Fairfield, Texas, built by Calpine and placed in service in 2002.
Freestyle music
Freestyle music, also called Latin freestyle, is an electronic dance genre that emerged among Latino communities in New York City and Miami in the early 1980s.
Freestyle rap
Freestyle rap is improvised rapping over a beat or a cappella, born in the 1970s South Bronx; the term once meant verses "free of style". Known for ciphers, battle formats like Red Bull Batalla, and studied in fMRI creativity research.
Freestyle skiing
Freestyle skiing, a judged skiing discipline governed by FIS with moguls, aerials, ski cross, halfpipe, slopestyle, and big air; Olympic demonstration debut Calgary 1988, medal sport from Albertville 1992, dual moguls added at Milano Cortina 2026.
Freestyle skiing at the 1992 Winter Olympics
Freestyle skiing became an official Olympic medal sport at the 1992 Albertville Games, with moguls as the sole medal discipline, won by Edgar Grospiron and Donna Weinbrecht.
Freestyle skiing at the 2014 Winter Olympics
Freestyle skiing at Sochi 2014: 10 events at Rosa Khutor Extreme Park, 6–21 February 2014, debuting ski halfpipe and slopestyle; 262 athletes, Canada and USA won 7 of 10 golds, USA swept men's slopestyle.
Freestyle skiing at the 2022 Winter Olympics
Freestyle skiing at Beijing 2022: 13 events, 3–19 February, at Genting Snow Park and Big Air Shougang; new big air and mixed team aerials; Eileen Gu won three medals; China led with 4 golds.
Freestyle skiing at the 2026 Winter Olympics
Freestyle skiing at Milano Cortina 2026: 15 medal events at Livigno Snow Park, 7–22 February 2026, with dual moguls debuting; 272 skiers from 24 nations; China and USA led with three golds each; Eileen Gu topped the individual medal count.
Freestyle skiing at the Winter Olympics
Freestyle skiing at the Winter Olympics: FIS-governed Olympic discipline with moguls, dual moguls, aerials, ski cross, halfpipe, slopestyle, and big air; demonstration at Calgary 1988, medal sport from 1992, 15 events at Milano Cortina 2026.
Freestyle skiing at the Winter Universiade
Freestyle skiing at the Winter Universiade, staged as Freestyle & Freeski, debuted at Innsbruck 2005 with ski cross; its compulsory program now includes ski cross, moguls, slopestyle, and big air.
Freestyle skiing at the Winter Youth Olympics
Freestyle skiing at the Winter Youth Olympics is the program of freestyle skiing competitions for young athletes held at each edition of the Winter Youth Olympic Games.
Freestyle swimming
Freestyle swimming is the competitive event category raced with the front crawl; governed by World Aquatics Competition Regulations, it rewards the lowest-drag, most efficient of the four strokes.
Freestyle wrestling
Freestyle wrestling, an Olympic grappling sport since 1904 (women's since 2004), where wrestlers use throws, takedowns, and leg attacks to win by fall or points; six weight classes per gender.
Freestyler
Freestyler is a 1999 breakbeat/hip-hop single by Finland's Bomfunk MC's, written by Raymond Ebanks and composed by JS16 (Jaakko Salovaara), from the album In Stereo; it peaked at UK number 2 and was Europe's best-selling single of 2000.
Freestylers
Freestylers (The Freestylers): British breakbeat/bass music group formed in London in 1996 by producers Matt Cantor and Aston Harvey, originally with Andrew Galea; known for 'B-Boy Stance', the 2004 hit 'Push Up', and albums We Rock Hard and Raw As Fk.
FreeSync
AMD FreeSync is a variable refresh rate technology that synchronizes a display's refresh rate with a compatible graphics card's frame rate, reducing screen tearing, stuttering, and input latency during gaming.
Freetech Intelligent Driving
Freetech Intelligent Driving (福瑞泰克) is a Chinese supplier of advanced driver assistance and autonomous driving systems, founded in 2016 by Geely veteran Zhang Lin and headquartered in Wuzhen, Zhejiang.
Freeter (フリーター)
Freeter (フリーター) is a young Japanese worker who lives on part-time or arubaito jobs rather than regular full-time employment; the term, coined in 1987, peaked above 4 million in 2001.
Freethought
Freethought is the stance of forming beliefs by reason and evidence rather than authority, tradition, or dogma. Coined around 1697 and popularized by Anthony Collins's 1713 Discourse of Freethinking, it is compatible with both theism and atheism.
Freetown
Freetown is the capital and largest city of Sierra Leone, founded in 1792 by freed slaves from Nova Scotia and known as a former Royal Navy base against the slave trade.
Freetown Christiania
Freetown Christiania (Fristaden Christiania), a self-governing car-free community founded in 1971 on a former Copenhagen barracks, owned since 2012 by Fonden Fristaden Christiania; Pusher Street's hash market was dismantled by residents in April 2024.
Freeview (UK)
Freeview is the UK's free digital terrestrial TV service, launched 30 October 2002 by the BBC, Crown Castle, and BSkyB after ITV Digital collapsed. Over 100 aerial-delivered channels, Freeview Play catch-up, licences renewed to 2034, managed by Everyone TV.
Freeware
Freeware is software provided at no monetary cost. Coined by Andrew Fluegelman in 1982, the term defines packages by their price and the specific restrictions, not by technical properties.
Freeway (1996 film)
Freeway (1996) is Matthew Bright's dark comedy thriller, a modern Little Red Riding Hood starring Reese Witherspoon as runaway Vanessa Lutz and Kiefer Sutherland as the I-5 Killer; a small-budget cult film with a 76% Rotten Tomatoes score.
Freeway (rapper)
Freeway (Leslie Edward Pridgen, born 1978) is a Philadelphia rapper, State Property member, and Roc-A-Fella artist whose 2003 debut Philadelphia Freeway reached number five on the Billboard 200; later independent, and a 2019 kidney transplant recipient.