Definition of "goer"

Such a manMight be a copy to these younger times;Which, follow’d well, would demonstrate them nowBut goers backward.

c. 1604–1605 (date written), William Shakespeare, “All’s Well, that Ends Well”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, [Act I, scene ii]

Lord John has been all day in his inner library. His antechamber has been filled with comers and goers, some talking in knots, some writing notes at tables.

1845, Thomas Babington Macaulay, Letter to Hannah Macaulay dated 19 December, 1845 in G. Otto Trevelyan (ed.), The Life and Letters of Lord Macaulay, New York: Harper, 1875, Volume 2, p. 149

[…] the two classes of men; on the one hand the steady goers of superhuman strength […] plodding and persevering, […] ; on the other the gifted, the inspired […]

1927, Virginia Woolf, To the Lighthouse‎, London: The Hogarth Press, published 1930, Part 1, p. 58

He despised the museum and its goers for everything they didn’t know.

2001, Jonathan Franzen, The Corrections

Norman: Is your wife a...goer...eh? Know what I mean? Know what I mean? Nudge nudge.

1969, Monty Python, Nudge Nudge

He winked at Parsons. "If I'm any judge, she must've bin a right little goer in 'er day."

1990, Hampton Charles, Advantage Miss Seeton, page 45

' […] (Intimate, man to man) Eh, I bet she's a goer, int she sunshine? She's got a fair pair of knockers on her too.'

2001, Peter Buse, Drama + Theory: Critical Approaches to Modern British Drama, page 102

'I can tell that yer a right little goer, hey Larsie?!' I call over two slappers and slip them a few hundred! Before I know it me and Lars and the two slappers are rolling around a giant bed with the hungriest genitals in Gay Paree!

2001, Edna Walsh, Bedbound and Misterman‎, page 22

[…] a double Mantle castA’ thwart his Shoulders, his faire goers g[r]ac’stWith fitted shooes; and in his hand, a Dart

c. 1615, George Chapman, transl., Homer’s Odysses‎, London: Nathaniell Butter, Book 13, p. 202

These Horses, which are very much bought up in England, are remarkable for being good natural Pacers, strong, easy Goers, hardy, gentle, well-broken, and, above all, not apt to tire.

1727, Daniel Defoe, “A Tour thro’ the Whole Island of Great Britain”, in et al.‎, London: J. Osborn, published 1742, Volume 4, Letter 3, p. 106

“I'd like nothing better this minute,” said Mr Browne stoutly, “than a rattling fine walk in the country or a fast drive with a good spanking goer between the shafts.”

1914 June, James Joyce, “The Dead”, in Dubliners, London: Grant Richards