Ambition vs. Goal

An eager or strong desire to achieve something, such as fame or power.

The object toward which an endeavor is directed; an end.

The object or goal desired

A structure or area into which players endeavor to propel a ball or puck in order to score points.

Desire for exertion or activity; energy

A play or shot that sends a ball or puck into or through the goal.

Eager or inordinate desire for some object that confers distinction, as preferment, honor, superiority, political power, or fame; desire to distinguish one's self from other people.

The score awarded for such an act.

(countable) An object of an ardent desire.

The finish line of a race.

A desire, as in (sense 1), for another person to achieve these things.

A noun or noun phrase referring to the place to which something moves.

(uncountable) A personal quality similar to motivation, not necessarily tied to a single goal.

See patient.

(obsolete) The act of going about to solicit or obtain an office, or any other object of desire; canvassing.

A result that one is attempting to achieve.

To seek after ambitiously or eagerly; to covet.

(sport) In many sports, an area into which the players attempt to put an object.

The act of going about to solicit or obtain an office, or any other object of desire; canvassing.

(sport) The act of placing the object into the goal.

An eager, and sometimes an inordinate, desire for preferment, honor, superiority, power, or the attainment of something.

A point scored in a game as a result of placing the object into the goal.

To seek after ambitiously or eagerly; to covet.

A noun or noun phrase that receives the action of a verb. The subject of a passive verb or the direct object of an active verb. Also called a patient, target, or undergoer.

A cherished desire;

To score a goal.

A strong drive for success

The mark set to bound a race, and to or around which the constestants run, or from which they start to return to it again; the place at which a race or a journey is to end.

Have as one's ambition

The final purpose or aim; the end to which a design tends, or which a person aims to reach or attain.

A base, station, or bound used in various games as the point or object which a team must reach in order to score points; in certain games, the point which the ball or puck must pass in order for points to be scored. In football, it is a line between two posts across which the ball must pass in order to score points; in soccer or ice hockey, it is a net at each end of the soccer field into which the soccer ball or hocjey puck must be propelled; in basketball, it is the basket{7} suspended from the backboard, through which the basketball must pass.

The act or instance of propelling the ball or puck into or through the goal{3}, thus scoring points; as, to score a goal.

The state of affairs that a plan is intended to achieve and that (when achieved) terminates behavior intended to achieve it;

A successful attempt at scoring;

Game equipment consisting of the place toward which players of a game try to advance a ball or puck in order to score points

The place designated as the end (as of a race or journey);