goal

noun

• 1(in football, rugby, hockey, and some other games) a pair of posts linked by a crossbar and typically with a net between, 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 the goal, especially as a unit of scoring in a game:the decisive opening goal we won by three goals to two
• a cage or basket used as a goal in other sports.

• 2the object of a person’s ambition or effort; an aim or desired result:he achieved his goal of becoming King of England
• the destination of a journey:the aircraft bumped towards our goal some 400 miles to the west
• literary a point marking the end of a race.