n.
   - (in soccer, rugby, etc.) a pair of posts linked by a crossbar and forming a space into or over which the ball has to be sent in order to score.
- an instance of sending the ball into or over a goal.
- an aim or desired result. ▸the destination of a journey. 
Phrase
  
    
      - in goal
 in the position of goalkeeper.
 
  Derivative
  
    - goalless adj.
- goalwards adv.
 
  Etymology
  ME (in the sense ‘limit, boundary’): of unknown origin.