A free kick is used to restart play in several codes of football:
- Association football
- Direct free kick, from which one may score directly
- Indirect free kick, from which one may not score directly
- American football;
- Safety kick
- Fair catch kick, a field goal attempted freely from the spot of a fair catch
- Other forms of football
- Free kick (rugby union), usually awarded to a team for a technical offence committed by the opposing side
- Free kick (Australian rules football), a penalty awarded by a field umpire to a player
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