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A net, in its primary meaning, comprises fibers woven in a grid-like structure, as in fishing nets, butterfly nets, cricket nets, or nets used in sporting goals in games such as soccer, basketball, Bossaball and ice hockey.

The adjectives reticulated and retiary both mean "net-like".

Most of the other meanings of the term are by analogy with the use above.
Fishing net or fishnet is a type of net that is use to enclose fish. All fishing nets are meshes usually formed by knotting a relatively thin thread. Modern nets are usually made of artificial polyamides like nylon, although nets of organic polyamides such as wool or silk
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A butterfly net is one of several kinds of nets used to collect insects. The entire bag of the net is generally constructed from a lightweight mesh to minimize damage to delicate butterfly wings. Other types of nets used in insect collecting include beat nets and sweep nets.
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Cricket nets are practice nets used by batsmen and bowlers to warm up and/or improve their cricketing techniques. They consist of a cricket pitch (natural or artificial) surrounded along its lengths and behind the batsman by netting. The bowling end is left open.
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A goal is a term used in many sports worldwise to denote a scoring event, and often also the physical structure that is the target for scoring.

Football (soccer)

In Association football (soccer), the word goal
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Association football, commonly known as football or soccer, is a team sport played between two teams of 11 players. It is the most popular sport in the world.
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Bossaball is a sport invented in Belgium, but also played in other countries including Brazil[1][2], Netherlands[3][4], and Spain[5].
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Ice hockey, often referred to simply as hockey in Canada and the United States, is a team sport played on ice. It is a speedy and physical sport. Ice hockey is most popular in areas that are sufficiently cold for natural, reliable seasonal ice cover, though with the advent
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