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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.
Freeze out
Freeze out, also called War, is a children's domino game of virtually no skill using a double six set; players flip tiles and the last to match a lead suit captures the trick.
Fregene Surf Club
Fregene Surf Club: surf and windsurf clubs at Fregene, Fiumicino, near Rome, including Fregene Vela Surf Club (FVSC) and Point Break; beach-break spot on the Tyrrhenian coast hosting Italian longboard championships.
Frej Liewendahl
Frej Liewendahl (Frey Fritiof Liewendahl, 1902–1966), Finnish middle-distance runner from Jomala, Åland; 1924 Paris Olympic gold in the 3,000 m team race, eighth in the 1,500 m final, 1928 non-starter.
Fremantle Football Club
Fremantle Football Club, the Dockers or Freo, an Australian rules football club in the AFL since 1995; lost the 2013 grand final to Hawthorn, plays at Optus Stadium, fields an AFLW team at Fremantle Oval.
French Alps
The French Alps are the French portion of the Alps, covering 35,000 km² and home to Mont Blanc and the world's largest lift-linked ski areas, including Les Trois Vallées.
French Defence
French Defence (1.e4 e6), chess opening preparing ...d5; ECO C00–C19. Second most popular reply to 1.e4 after the Sicilian; known for the light-squared bishop problem, Winawer and Advance Variations, and masters from Botvinnik to Uhlmann.
French Figure Skating Championships
The French Figure Skating Championships are France's annual national championships awarding titles in men's and women's singles, pair skating, and ice dance, first held in 1908.
French Football Federation
French Football Federation (Fédération Française de Football, FFF), founded 7 April 1919, is France's football governing body: 2.38 million licenses, 11,716 clubs, national teams, Coupe de France, president Philippe Diallo.
French Grand Prix
French Grand Prix (Grand Prix de France, Grand Prix de l'ACF): France's motor race, first held 1906 at Le Mans, won by Ferenc Szisz; a Formula 1 round at seven circuits, last run 2022 at Paul Ricard.
French Open
French Open (Roland-Garros, Internationaux de France): Grand Slam clay-court tennis tournament held each May–June at Stade Roland Garros, Paris; founded 1891, opened internationally 1925; Nadal holds 14 men's titles.
French Rally Championship
The Championnat de France des Rallyes is France's national rally championship, organized by the FFSA since 1967, awarding separate asphalt and gravel titles and producing drivers like Sébastien Loeb.
French Tarot
French Tarot (tarot français) is France's popular 78-card trick-taking game for 3-5 players, with bidding, the chien, bouts (petit, 21, excuse), and FFT-run tournaments; unrelated to fortune-telling.
Frenkie de Jong
Frenkie de Jong (born 1997) is a Dutch midfielder for FC Barcelona and the Netherlands, signed from Ajax in 2019 for €75 million, Barcelona's most-capped Dutchman, contracted to 2029, recovering from a July 2026 knee ligament tear.
Fresko
Fresko, renamed Fresco in 2020, is a 2010 Queen Games board game by Marco Ruskowski and Marcel Süßelbeck for 2–4 players; Renaissance painters restore a cathedral fresco, with a wake-up-time mechanism setting turn order, market prices, and apprentice mood. Spiel des Jahres 2010 nominee, Deutscher Spielepreis 2010 winner.
Fresno Grizzlies
Fresno Grizzlies, Single-A California League baseball team and Colorado Rockies affiliate in Fresno, California. Founded 1998 as Triple-A; plays at Chukchansi Park; led California League attendance six straight years.
Fresno State Bulldogs football
Fresno State Bulldogs football: California State University, Fresno's FBS team, 405-286-4 all-time, 29 conference titles, home at Valley Children's Stadium; Mountain West member until joining the Pac-12 in 2026 under coach Matt Entz.
Freya Anderson
Freya Anderson is a British freestyle swimmer from Birkenhead, England, who won Olympic gold in the mixed 4x100m medley relay at Tokyo 2020 and holds eleven European titles.
Fricio Caicedo
Fricio Caicedo (Fricio David Caicedo Jaramillo), born 2008, is an Ecuadorian left-footed centre-back, 1.95 m, from the LDU Quito academy, loaned from FC Moravia FCM to Inter Miami CF in July 2026; one senior Ecuador cap.
Frictional Games
Frictional Games, Swedish indie studio founded 2006 by Thomas Grip and Jens Nilsson, creator of Penumbra, Amnesia: The Dark Descent, and SOMA; known for combat-free first-person horror and the upcoming Ontos.
Friday Night Funkin'
Friday Night Funkin' (FNF) is a free, open-source browser rhythm game from Ludum Dare 47 (2020) by ninjamuffin99, PhantomArcade, evilsk8r, and KawaiSprite; its Newgrounds demo is the site's most viewed submission and its Kickstarter raised $2.2M.
Friday Night Lights (film)
Friday Night Lights (2004) is Peter Berg's sports drama based on Buzz Bissinger's 1990 book about the 1988 Odessa Permian Panthers, starring Billy Bob Thornton as coach Gary Gaines; it grossed $61.2M and spawned the NBC TV series.
Friday Night Lights: A Town, a Team, and a Dream
Friday Night Lights: A Town, a Team, and a Dream is H.G. Bissinger's 1990 nonfiction book on the 1988 Permian Panthers of Odessa, Texas, later a 2004 film and NBC series.
Friday the 13th: The Game
Friday the 13th: The Game is IllFonic and Gun Media's 2017 asymmetrical horror game, one Jason Voorhees versus seven counselors at Camp Crystal Lake; funded on Kickstarter, frozen by a rights lawsuit, servers closed December 31, 2024.
Frieda Bühner
Frieda Bühner (Frieda Mizzi Bühner), German forward-center born 2004 in Georgsmarienhütte; Portland Fire second-round pick (17th overall, 2026 WNBA Draft), former Florida Gator and Estudiantes player, German Olympian at Paris 2024.
Friedel Berges
Friedel Berges (Friedrich Berges, 1903-1969), German freestyle swimmer from Darmstadt; two-time European 4x200 m relay champion, 1927 world record 9:49.6, 1928 Olympian, multiple German 400 and 1500 m titlist.