ballooning

noun

bal·​loon·​ing bə-ˈlü-niŋ 

: the act or sport of riding in a balloon

Examples of ballooning in a Sentence

She's always wanted to go ballooning.

Recent Examples on the Web

The nearly six-week-long war in Iran may be occurring thousands of miles away from NATO headquarters, but its impacts are reverberating throughout Europe in the form of ballooning fuel prices and the risk of energy shortages. —Daniel Depetris, Chicago Tribune, 7 Apr. 2026

By 2019 — costs ballooning and the timeline years off schedule — bipartisan political pressure mounted. —Jon Wertheim, CBS News, 5 Apr. 2026

Xi has avoided reforms that could restore healthy growth, such as tackling the excessive supply and anemic demand behind China’s falling prices and ballooning trade surpluses. —Michael Schuman, The Atlantic, 1 Apr. 2026

With student loan debt ballooning and salaries not keeping pace, buying a house, having kids and other life milestones are feeling more out of reach for younger generations, prompting them to seek out less traditional ways of making money. —Jenni Fink, MSNBC Newsweek, 30 Mar. 2026

Word History

First Known Use

1784, in the meaning defined above

Rhymes for ballooning

• cartooning
• communing
• impugning
• crooning
• mooning
• pruning
• spooning
• swooning
• tuning