goalkeeper

See also: goal keeper and goal-keeper

English

Alternative forms

• goal-keeper, goal keeper

Etymology

From goal +‎ keeper.

Pronunciation

• Audio (US)

  (file)

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”, in BBC Sport‎^[1]:

     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 (sq) m
• Arabic: حَارِس مَرْمَى‎‎ m (ḥāris marmā)
• Armenian: դարպասապահ (hy) (darpasapah)
• Basque: atezain (eu)
• Belarusian: варата́р m (varatár)
• Bulgarian: вратар (bg) (vratar)
• Catalan: porter (ca) m
• Chinese:

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

• Cornish: gwithyas gol m, gwithyades wol f
• Czech: brankář (cs) m
• Danish: målmand (da) c, målvogter (da) c
• Dutch: keeper (nl) 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 (ja) (gōrukīpā), キーパー (kīpā)

• Kazakh: қақпашы (qaqpaşı)
• Korean: 골키퍼 (ko) (golkipeo), 키퍼 (kipeo)
• Macedonian: golman (golman)
• Maori: kaikaro, kaiārai
• Mongolian: хаалгач (mn) (haalgač)
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: målvakt m, f, målmann m

  Nynorsk: målvakt f, målmann m

• Persian: دروازه‌بان‎‎ (fa) (darvâze-bân)
• Polish: bramkarz (pl) m
• Portuguese: goleiro (pt) m (Brazil), guarda-redes (pt) c
• Romanian: portar (ro) m, portăriță f
• Russian: врата́рь (ru) m (vratárʹ), голки́пер (ru) m (golkíper)
• Scottish Gaelic: fear-bàire m
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: вра̀та̄р m, го̏лман m

  Roman: vràtār (sh) m, gȍlman (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), cancerbero (es)
• Swedish: målvakt (sv) c, målis (sv) c (colloquial)
• Thai: ผู้รักษาประตู, โกล (gool), โกล์
• Turkish: kaleci (tr)
• Ukrainian: ворота́р m (vorotár), голкі́пер m (holkíper)
• Vietnamese: thủ thành (vi), thủ môn
• Volapük: (♂♀) zeiligaledan, (♂) zeilihigaledan, (♀) zeilijigaledan
• Welsh: gôl-geidwad m

Anagrams

• gaolkeeper