0 to make a person or an animal react or do something by continuously annoying or upsetting them: --
1 to touch an animal with the end of a pointed object in order to make it angry or encourage it to do something: --
2 something that encourages someone to do something, especially by annoying or upsetting them: --
3 a stick for poking an animal to make it do what you want: --
The teasing glimpse of so many gorgeous spots is a goad to renew your own passport and get moving.
His filmmaker son had never gotten around to recording his father's wartime memories, and his failure to do so became a kind of goad to get it right with the subjects of the film.
If I take a holiday of more than two weeks, the pain returns and pain is a very effective goad.
It has been an incentive and a goad to me.
That hurt his sense of patriotic pride and was one of the goads that sent him off around the world.