goalpost

A goalpost in American football

English

Etymology

goal +‎ post

Noun

goalpost (plural goalposts)

1. (sports) In American football, the tall Y-shaped upright, now usually of fiberglass, at either end of the playing field, through which a football must go in order to score a field goal. Originally, they were H-shaped, with two wooden posts on either side.
2. (sports) One of the two side poles of the goal.

Related terms

• move the goalposts

Anagrams

• go postal

Translations

vertical part of football goal

• Armenian: ուղղահայաց դարպասաձող (hy) (ułłahayacʿ darpasajoł), շտանգա (hy) (štanga) (colloquial)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 門柱 (cmn), 门柱 (cmn) (ménzhù)

• French: goalpost (fr) m

• German: Torpfosten (de) m
• Icelandic: marksúla (is) f, markstöng (is) f
• Japanese: ゴールポスト (ja) (gōruposuto)
• Norwegian: målstang (no) m and f, stang (no) m and f
• Russian: штанга (ru) (štánga) f