goalpost

See also: goal post

English

A goalpost in American football

Etymology

goal +‎ post.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈɡəʊlpəʊst/, /ˈɡɔʊl-/
• IPA^(key): /ˈɡoʊlpoʊst/
• Hyphenation: goal‧post
• Rhymes: -əʊst

Noun

goalpost (plural goalposts)

1. (sports) One of the two vertical side poles of a goal.
2. (sports, 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 for a field goal to be scored. (They were originally H-shaped, with one wooden post on either side.)

Derived terms

• move the goalposts

Translations

vertical side pole of a goal

• Armenian: ուղղահայաց դարպասաձող (uġġahayacʻ darpasajoġ), շտանգա (hy) (štanga) (colloquial)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 門柱／门柱 (zh) (ménzhù), 门柱 (zh) (ménzhù)

• Faroese: stong f, málstong f
• Finnish: maalitolppa, tolppa (fi)
• French: goalpost m
• Georgian: სპორტული (sṗorṭuli), კარების ძელი (ḳarebis ʒeli)
• German: Torpfosten m
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• Greek: κάθετο δοκάρι n (kátheto dokári)
• Icelandic: marksúla f, markstöng f
• Italian: palo (it) m
• Japanese: ゴールポスト (gōruposuto)
• Norwegian: målstang m or f, stang (no) m or f
• Portuguese: trave (pt) f
• Romanian: ștachetă (ro) f
• Russian: шта́нга (ru) f (štánga)
• Swedish: stolpe (sv) c, målstolpe (sv) c

Further reading

• goal (sport) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Category:goalpost on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons

Anagrams

• go postal