goalkeeper

English

Etymology

goal +‎ keeper

Pronunciation

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Noun

goalkeeper (plural goalkeepers)

1. (sports) a designated player that attempts to prevent the opposing team from scoring by protecting a goal.
   • 2012 June 9, Owen Phillips, “Euro 2012: Netherlands 0-1 Denmark”, BBC Sport:

     Krohn-Dehli took advantage of a lucky bounce of the ball after a battling run on the left flank by Simon Poulsen, dummied two defenders and shot low through goalkeeper Maarten Stekelenburg's legs after 24 minutes.

Synonyms

• goalie
• goalminder
• goaltender
• keeper
• netkeeper
• netminder

Usage notes

• In ice hockey and lacrosse goaltender is the correct term and in most other sports goalkeeper is the correct term. However, the terms are often used interchangeably.

Translations

player that protects a goal

• Afrikaans: doelwagter
• Albanian: portier m
• Arabic: حارس مرمى m (ḥāris marmā)
• Armenian: դարպասապահ (darpasapah)
• Basque: atezain (eu)
• Belarusian: варатар m (varatár)
• Bulgarian: вратар (bg) (vratar)
• Catalan: porter m
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 守門員, 守门员 (zh) (shǒuményuán), 門將 (zh), 门将 (ménjiàng)

• Cornish: gwithyas gol m, gwithyades wol f
• Czech: brankář (cs) m
• Danish: målmand (da) c, målvogter (da) c
• Dutch: keeper m, f, doelwachter m, doelwachtster f, doelman (nl) m
• Esperanto: (♂♀) golulo, (♀) golulino
• Estonian: väravavaht
• Faroese: málmaður m
• Finnish: maalivahti (fi)
• French: gardien de but (fr) m, gardienne de but f, gardien (fr) m, gardienne (fr) f, goal (fr) m, portier (fr) m, portière (fr) f
• German: Torwart (de) m, Torwartin f, Torhüter (de) m, Torhüterin (de) f, Torwächter m, Torwächterin f, Tormann (de) m, Torfrau (de) f, Keeper (de) m (Austrian, Swiss), Keeperin (de) f, Schlussmann m, Schlussfrau f, Goalie m, Goali m, Goalmann m (Austrian), Goalfrau f, Torsteher m, Torsteherin f, Fliegenfänger (de) m (football/soccer jargon), Fliegenfängerin f
• Greek: τερματοφύλακας (el) m, f (termatofýlakas)

• Hebrew: שוער (he) m
• Hungarian: kapus (hu)
• Icelandic: markvörður m
• Italian: portiere (it)
• Japanese: ゴールキーパー (gōrukīpā), キーパー (kīpā)
• Korean: 골키퍼 (ko) (golkipeo), 키퍼 (kipeo)
• Macedonian: golman (golman)
• Moldavian: portar
• Norwegian: målvakt m
• Polish: bramkarz (pl) m
• Portuguese: goleiro (pt) m (Brazil), guarda-redes c
• Romanian: portar (ro) m, portăriță f
• Russian: вратарь (ru) m (vratárʹ), голкипер (ru) m (golkíper)
• Scottish Gaelic: fear-bàire m
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: вратар m, голман m

  Roman: vratar (sh) m, golman (sh) m

• Slovak: brankár m
• Spanish: arquero (es) m (Latin America), golero m (Uruguay), guardameta (es) m (journalistic and sports commentators usage), portero (es) m (Spain)
• Swedish: målvakt (sv) c
• Turkish: kaleci (tr)
• Ukrainian: воротар m (vorotár), голкіпер m (holkíper)
• Vietnamese: thủ thành (vi), thủ môn
• Volapük: (♂♀) zeiligaledan, (♂) zeilihigaledan, (♀) zeilijigaledan
• Welsh: gôl-geidwad m

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