Front-runner is a term to describe the leader in a race, whether in politics, sports or a beauty pageant.

It may also refer to:

• Front Runner, a sailboat
• FrontRunner, a commuter rail train in Utah
• Frontrunners, a collective name for the worldwide network of LGBT running and walking clubs
• FrontRunners, a group of Indigenous Canadian athletes
• The Front Runner (film), a political drama
• The Front Runner (novel), a 1974 gay novel by Patricia Nell Warren from which LGBT running and walking clubs derived their name
• Frontrunner, a 2008 documentary about Massouda Jalal's campaign for the presidency of Afghanistan
• Front Runner UGV - unmanned ground vehicle, made in Israel
• FrontRunner, a railroad boxcar model built by TTX Company
• Front Runner, a Stan Rogers song from the 1978 album: Turnaround