goaltend

From goal +‎ tend.

goaltend (third-person singular simple present goaltends, present participle goaltending, simple past and past participle goaltended) (intransitive)

1. (basketball) To engage in goaltending, interference with the ball on its downward path to the basket
   • 2004, Rick Teland, Heaven is a Playground‎^[1], →ISBN, page 108:

     Amazingly, of Fly's first eight shots two are blocked, three go in, and three are goaltended.

2. (ice hockey) To act as a goaltender, to tend goal, to mind the nets.

• tend goal

(ice hockey):

• goalie
• goalkeep
• netmind

• goaltender
• goaltending
• tend goal