diff --git a/evil-common.el b/evil-common.el
index 6019c8a7..544b6aea 100644
--- a/evil-common.el
+++ b/evil-common.el
@@ -1703,7 +1703,7 @@ WORD is a sequence of non-whitespace characters
 '[^\\n\\r\\t\\f ]', or an empty line matching ^$."
   (evil-forward-nearest count
                         #'(lambda (&optional cnt)
-                            (evil-forward-chars "^\n\r\t\f " cnt))
+                            (evil-forward-chars evil-bigword cnt))
                         #'forward-evil-empty-line))
 
 (defun forward-evil-symbol (&optional count)
diff --git a/evil-vars.el b/evil-vars.el
index 9e8b879f..767e3aec 100644
--- a/evil-vars.el
+++ b/evil-vars.el
@@ -319,7 +319,7 @@ selected. Possible values are `evil-word' or `evil-WORD'."
   :type 'symbol
   :group 'evil)
 
-(defcustom evil-bigword "^ \t\r\n"
+(defcustom evil-bigword "^ \f\t\r\n"
   "The set of characters to be interpreted as WORD boundaries.
 This is enclosed with square brackets and used as a regular
 expression.  By default, whitespace characters are considered