The position, role, or activity of being a goalkeeper; the skills and techniques involved in defending the goal.
Gerund form of 'goal-keep,' derived from 'goalkeeper.' The '-ing' suffix transforms the noun 'goalkeeper' into an abstract noun describing the activity.
Sports vocabulary creates whole new gerunds—'goalkeeping' is a complete sub-skill with its own training, statistics, and philosophy, showing how the '-ing' form lets us discuss entire fields of expertise as single words.
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