touchdown

nouns

a score in American football; being in possession of the ball across the opponents' goal line
domain category
a game played by two teams of 11 players on a rectangular field 100 yards long; teams try to get possession of the ball and advance it across the opponents goal line in a series of (running or passing) plays
is a type of (narrower)
the act of scoring in a game or sport
"the winning score came with less than a minute left to play"
a landing (as the wheels touch the landing field); especially of airplanes
is derived from
is a type of (narrower)
the act of coming down to the earth (or other surface)
"the plane made a smooth landing"; "his landing on his feet was catlike"