Crossword clues for goalie
goalie
- Water polo position
- Vezina Trophy recipient
- Soccer team member
- Soccer socker
- Soccer player who guards the net
- Soccer player who does the least running
- Soccer or hockey player
- Soccer keeper
- Soccer defender
- Soccer blocker
- Puck halter
- Player whose motto might be "the puck stops here"
- Player who stops the puck
- Player blocking a net
- Penguins' masked defender, e.g
- Penguin in a mask, e.g
- Only obstacle in a breakaway
- One with a net income?
- One preventing net gains
- One can't work without a net
- Net-guarding soccer player
- Net-guarding hockey position
- Net-guarding hockey player
- Net watchman
- Net tender
- Net security personnel?
- Net protector
- Net blocker
- Net asset?
- Monitor of net income?
- Masked puck stopper
- Masked hockey position
- Last line of defense
- Ken Dryden's position
- Hockey VIP
- Hockey or soccer player
- Hockey mask wearer
- Guy in the net
- Frequent saver
- Footballer, informally
- Flyer in a mask, e.g
- Face-mask wearer
- Devil in a mask, e.g
- Crucial soccer position
- Crease occupant
- Certain hockey position
- Broda or Plante, e.g
- Athlete whose motto might be "the puck stops here"?
- Athlete in a crease
- Any winner of the Vezina Trophy
- A final defender
- Athlete in a crease
- The puck stops here?
- One interested in net savings?
- В В Athlete in a crease
- Only soccer player who can throw the ball
- Net guardian
- Hands-on position?
- H.L. player
- Diving athlete
- The soccer or hockey player assigned to protect the goal
- The defensive position on an ice hockey or soccer or lacrosse team who stands in front of the goal and tries to prevent opposing players from scoring
- Boston's Mike Moffat, e.g.
- His motto: "The puck stops here"
- Lacrosse player
- Rangers' defense
- Last line of defense in soccer
- Puck stopper
- Net minder
- Bill Smith of the Islanders
- Hall of Famer Brimsek was one
- Girl that's keeping close to zoo keeper
- Certain hockey player
- One might be agile, diving around and letting nothing in
- Work a deceit stopping one's business?
- No 1 saver
- Footballer saving his job?
- Football team member
- A position where ball stops following attempt?
- Player's remarkably agile around circuit
- Banks maybe withdraw a false statement
- The team's handyman?
- Hockey position
- Soccer position
- Super saver?
- Hockey player who guards the net
- Masked man
- Shot blocker
- Save specialist
- Player in a mask
- Soccer player
- Shot stopper
- Masked man with a stick
- Masked athlete
- Man in a mask
- Water-polo position
- Stick-wielding facemask wearer
- Player in front of a net
- Net defender in hockey
- Masked defender at a cage
- Lacrosse position
- Hockey player for the defense
- Deke victim
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1921, from goal + -ie. Probably a shortening of goal-tender (1909), which tends to be the term used in ice hockey, as opposed to goal-keeper (1650s).
Wiktionary
n. (context sports colloquial English) A goalkeeper or goaltender.
WordNet
n. the soccer or hockey player assigned to protect the goal [syn: goalkeeper, goaltender, netkeeper, netminder]
the defensive position on an ice hockey or soccer or lacrosse team who stands in front of the goal and tries to prevent opposing players from scoring [syn: goalkeeper, goaltender, netkeeper]
Usage examples of "goalie".
The goalie has a big area to cover but in two quick steps he can reach any ball aimed at the goal.
At the counter, Rip, Goalie, and Buster were having their last cup of coffee, already wondering what was going to be on TV that night.
He had to spread his knees wide to fit them under the counter, but Goalie was so short, his feet dangled.
Even Rip and Goalie were there with their grandchildren, seated on the top row beside Buster who was eating a wad of blue cotton candy.
He placed the ball eleven paces from the goal, while the goalie, crouched and staring, nervously licked his lips.
He began moving toward the ball, running slowly at first, waddling like a duck because his legs were a little crooked, and he also moved them in a special way to keep the goalie from guessing which leg he would kick with.
Finishing their three-on-two drills, Michael and the rest of the guys formed a circle and started shooting at the goalie to help warm him up.
Were it not for their goalie, Pierre LaRouche, the Blades would be out of it completely.
In the last two min-utes of play, New York pulled their goalie for an extra skater.
He took his place between the pipes and whacked his goalie stick on the poles to his left and right.
The book had gone into detail about the bad boy goalie, claiming he had the quickest hands on and off the ice.
She found her place behind the goalie cage just as the Chinooks stepped onto the ice.
Because a goalie could not do time in the sin bin, Bruce Fish took his place.
Both teams kept up the frenetic pace until the very end, when Chinooks goalie Luc Martineau denied the Coyotes a smoker from the blue line.
Two of his teammates and the goalie coach, Don Boclair, joined him in a game of poker.