Backward or backwards is a relative direction.

Backwards may also refer to: Anadrome, a term created from another word spelled backwards "Backwards" (Red Dwarf), episode of sci-fi TV sitcom Red Dwarf Backwards (novel), a novel based on the episode Backwards: The Riddle of Dyslexia, 1984 American TV program "Backwards" (Rascal Flatts song), a 2006 country music song on Me and My Gang "Backwards", a song by Apartment 26 from the Mission: Impossible 2 (soundtrack) "Backward", a song by Quicksand from the album Manic Compression "Backwards", a song by Quavo from the album Qrömelife Backmasking, a recording technique in which a sound or message is recorded backward onto a track that is meant to be played forward

See also Other Backward Class, a collective term used by the Government of India to classify castes which are educationally or socially disadvantaged

"Sdrawkcab" (an anadrome of "backwards"), a 1998 episode of Dexter's Laboratory