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From goal +‎ frame.

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goalframe (plural goalframes)

  1. (sports) The structure of the goal, generally consisting of two goalposts and a crossbar.
    • 2001, Steve Dryden, The Hockey News Century of Hockey: A Season-By-Season Celebration[1], page 11:
      Certainly, no one used the goalframe to his advantage more than Orr, especially when penalty-killing.
    • 2009, Richard Brentnall, A Different Corner: Exploring Spanish Football[2], page 180:
      It actually overstepped the mark because with stoppage time approaching several fans came onto the pitch and even dislodged the goalframe to my left in premature celebration.
    • 2013, Jonathan Wilson, Scott Murray, The Anatomy of Liverpool: A History in Ten Matches[3]:
      Had the goalframe been round in cross section, as was common in France, rather than square as it was in Glasgow, Jacques Santini's thirty-ninth minute header would–St Etienne insisted–have cannoned in rather than out and they would have taken the lead.

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