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Definition of Goal line
1. Noun. A line marking each end of the playing field or pitch; where the goals stand.
Definition of Goal line
1. Noun. (soccer hurling Gaelic football) the boundary of the field that runs along its width at each end, and across the front of the goal. ¹
2. Noun. (American football) part of a vertical plane separating an end zone from the field of play when the ball is touched or is in player possession. The plane extends beyond the sidelines. A team’s goal line is that which it is defending. ¹
3. Noun. (ice hockey) the red line that runs across the rink and the front of the goal. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of Goal Line
Literary usage of Goal line
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Encyclopaedia Britannica: “a” Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, Literature edited by Hugh Chisholm (1910)
"The touch-lines are continued beyond the goal-lines for a distance of not more
than 25 yds.; and parallel to the goal-line and behind it, at a distance of ..."
2. The Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, Literature and (1910)
"The goals, placed in the centre of each goal-line, consist of two upright posts
7 ft. high ... If the ball is hit across the goal-line but not into a goal, ..."
3. The Encyclopaedia of Sport by Frederick George Aflalo, Hedley Peek (1897)
"When a player touches the ball, any player of the same side who at that moment
is nearer his opponent-, goal-line is offside, and may not touch the ball ..."
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