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WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

n
1: one of a pair of posts (usually joined by a crossbar) that are set up as a goal at each end of a playing field

Merriam Webster's

noun Date: 1857 one of usually two vertical posts that with or without a crossbar constitute the goal in various games

Oxford Reference Dictionary

n. either of the two upright posts of a goal. Phrases and idioms: move the goalposts alter the basis or scope of a procedure during its course, so as to fit adverse circumstances encountered.

Collin's Cobuild Dictionary

also goal post(goalposts) 1. A goalpost is one of the two upright wooden posts that are connected by a crossbar and form the goal in games such as football and rugby. N-COUNT 2. If you accuse someone of moving the goalposts, you mean that they have changed the rules in a situation or an activity, in order to gain an advantage for themselves and to make things difficult for other people. They seem to move the goal posts every time I meet the conditions which are required. PHRASE: V inflects [disapproval]