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Full Gear (2025)

Full Gear (2025) was AEW's seventh Full Gear pay-per-view, held November 22, 2025 at Prudential Center, Newark. Samoa Joe won the AEW World Title from Hangman Page via HOOK's betrayal, Ricochet became the first AEW National Champion, and Swerve Strickland returned.

Full Gear (2026)

Full Gear (2026) is AEW's eighth Full Gear pay-per-view, scheduled November 14, 2026 at the Mortgage Matchup Center in Phoenix, Arizona; card TBA, following Samoa Joe's 2025 world title win.

Full Throttle (1995 video game)

Full Throttle is LucasArts' 1995 point-and-click biker adventure by Tim Schafer, starring Ben Throttle of the Polecats on SCUMM; sold over a million copies, remastered by Double Fine in 2017.

Full Tilt Poker

Full Tilt Poker, launched June 2004 by TiltWare (Bitar, Lederer, Ferguson), was the second-largest online poker room until the 2011 DOJ Black Friday seizure exposed a $390M player-fund shortfall; PokerStars acquired it in 2012 and retired the brand in 2021.

Full Tilt! Pinball

Full Tilt! Pinball is a 1995 Cinematronics pinball simulation published by Maxis with three tables: Space Cadet, Skulduggery, and Dragon's Keep; its Space Cadet table became Windows' bundled 3D Pinball.

Fullback (gridiron football)

Fullback (gridiron football): a running back position, typically the larger back behind the quarterback, serving as lead blocker for the halfback; once a featured power runner (Jim Brown era), now a specialized NFL role carried by 13 of 32 teams in 2025.

Fullmoon Island

Fullmoon Island: a Sinnoh location in Pokémon Diamond, Pearl, and Platinum where Cresselia and the Lunar Wing are found, and Full Moon Private Island, a 14-villa resort on Koh Ampil, Koh Kong, Cambodia, founded in 2008.

Fulvio Fantoni

Fulvio Fantoni (born 1963, Grosseto) is an Italian bridge player, partner of Claudio Nunes, winner of the 2002 World Pairs, 2005 Bermuda Bowl, and 2004/2008 Olympiads, later banned for cheating in 2016 and reinstated by CAS in 2018.

Fulvio Valbusa

Fulvio Valbusa (Bubu), born 1969 in Verona, is an Italian cross-country skier who won 4x10 km relay gold at Torino 2006 and silver at Nagano 1998 across five Olympics, with 23 World Cup podiums.

Fun

Fun: the pleasure and excitement of enjoyable activities, defined in research as positive emotion tied to an activity, with seven factors (safety, playfulness, novelty, autonomy, immersion, social connection, purpose) and power-law engagement scaling.

Funcom

Funcom: Norwegian game developer and publisher founded in 1993 in Oslo, known for Anarchy Online, Age of Conan, The Secret World, Conan Exiles, and Dune: Awakening; wholly owned by Tencent since 2020, pivoting in 2025-2026 to two-game live operations.

Funkenschlag

Funkenschlag, also known as Power Grid's first edition, is Friedemann Friese's 2001 2F-Spiele economic board game for 2-6 players: crayon-drawn power networks, power plant auctions, and a shifting resource market.

Funko Fusion

Funko Fusion is a 2024 action-adventure game by 10:10 Games, ex-TT Games developers, mashing over 20 licensed franchises into Funko Pop! form. Launched without co-op; mixed reviews, heavy DLC, later deep discounts.

Funny Car

Funny Car: NHRA professional drag racing class of short-wheelbase, carbon-fiber-bodied cars running the same supercharged 500-cid nitro Hemi as Top Fuel, over 11,000 hp, 3.8s at 330+ mph; official since the 1966 World Finals.

Furano Ski Resort (富良野スキー場)

Furano Ski Resort is a ski area in Furano, Hokkaido, Japan, opened in 1962 and known for hosting more FIS World Cup events than any Japanese resort.

Furcadia

Furcadia, a free graphical social MMO/MMOSG by Dragon's Eye Productions launched December 16, 1996, successor to DragonSpires (1994); Guinness record longest-running social MMORPG, built on user-created Dreams and anthropomorphic roleplay.

Furi

Furi is a 2016 boss rush action game by The Game Bakers mixing bullet hell shooting and parry-based swordplay, with boss design by Takashi Okazaki and a synthwave soundtrack.

Furkan Korkmaz

Furkan Korkmaz, Turkish 2.01 m guard-forward born 1997 in Istanbul; 2016 draft pick 26, seven NBA seasons with Philadelphia 76ers (328 games, 6.8 ppg), then Monaco, Bahçeşehir, Tofaş, and Beşiktaş; EuroBasket 2025 silver medalist.

Fursan al-Aqsa: The Knights of the Al-Aqsa Mosque

Fursan al-Aqsa: The Knights of the Al-Aqsa Mosque (فرسان الأقصى) is a 2022 third-person action game by solo developer Nidal Nijm, portraying the Israeli–Palestinian conflict from a Palestinian perspective.

Fusashige Suzuki

Fusashige Suzuki (鈴木房重, 1914–1945), Japanese marathon runner from Nihon University; ran 2:27:49 in 1935, a recognized world best, competed at the 1936 Berlin Olympics, and died in the Pacific War on Luzon.

Futsal

Futsal, also known as futebol de salão, is a five-a-side form of association football played indoors with a smaller ball, created in Uruguay in 1930.

Future Card Buddyfight (フューチャーカード バディファイト)

Future Card Buddyfight (フューチャーカード バディファイト) is Bushiroad's trading card game, announced June 2013, launched January 2014 in Japan and the US with an OLM anime; card production ended August 2020, support June 2021.

Fuzzy Zoeller

Fuzzy Zoeller (Frank Urban Zoeller Jr., 1951-2025), American golfer, ten-time PGA Tour winner; won 1979 Masters on debut and 1984 U.S. Open at Winged Foot over Greg Norman; two Champions Tour wins.

FWA Footballer of the Year

FWA Footballer of the Year, the Football Writers' Association's annual award (founded 1947, first won by Stanley Matthews) for the best player in English league football, voted by journalist members; record winners Salah and Henry.

Fylkir reykjavik

Fylkir reykjavik refers to Íþróttafélagið Fylkir, a multi-sport club founded in 1967 in the Árbær district of Reykjavík, Iceland, best known for its football team.

Fyodor Bogdanovsky

Fyodor Bogdanovsky (Фёдор Фёдорович Богдановский), Soviet middleweight weightlifter, 1956 Melbourne Olympic champion with a 420.0 kg world-record total; five-time World silver medalist behind Pete George and Tommy Kono, later a coach.

Fyodor Klimov

Fyodor Klimov (Фёдор Александрович Климов), born 1990 in Leningrad, is a retired Russian pair skater who with Ksenia Stolbova won 2014 Sochi Olympic team gold and pairs silver, plus world and European medals, and later coached.

Fyodor Lashchonov

Fyodor Lashchonov (Фёдор Серафимович Лащёнов, Fedir Lashchonov), born 1950 in Rovenky, Soviet volleyball attacker, 1980 Moscow Olympic champion, 1978 world champion, later a coach in Ukraine, Turkey, Israel, and Pakistan.

Fyodor Shutkov

Fyodor Shutkov (Фёдор Васильевич Шутков), 1924–2001, Soviet Star-class sailor; with Timir Pinegin won 1960 Rome Olympic gold aboard Tornado, competed at five Games 1952–1968, 13 Soviet titles, eight ice yachting titles.

Fyodor Simashov

Fyodor Simashov (Фёдор Петрович Симашёв, also Simashev/Simasjov), 1945-1997, Soviet cross-country skier from Tatarstan; 1972 Olympic relay gold and 15 km silver, 1970 world relay champion, twelve Soviet titles.