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Definition of Goal
| n. | 1. | | | 1. | The mark set to bound a race, and to or around which the constestants run, or from which they start to return to it again; the place at which a race or a journey is to end. | | 2. | The final purpose or aim; the end to which a design tends, or which a person aims to reach or attain. | | 3. | A base, station, or bound used in various games as the point or object which a team must reach in order to score points; in certain games, the point which the ball or puck must pass in order for points to be scored. In football, it is a line between two posts across which the ball must pass in order to score points; in soccer or ice hockey, it is a net at each end of the soccer field into which the soccer ball or hocjey puck must be propelled; in basketball, it is the basket{7} suspended from the backboard, through which the basketball must pass. | | 4. | (Sport) The act or instance of propelling the ball or puck into or through the goal{3}, thus scoring points; as, to score a goal. |
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