ballooning

1 of 2

noun

bal·​loon·​ing bə-ˈlü-niŋ 

: the act or sport of riding in a balloon

ballooning

2 of 2

present participle of balloon entry 3

Examples of ballooning in a Sentence

Noun

She's always wanted to go ballooning.

Recent Examples on the Web

Noun

The space agency canceled an effort to robotically bring rock samples from Mars back to Earth due to ballooning costs, including one independent estimate of $11 billion. — Stephen Clark, ArsTechnica, 1 Sep. 2026

Senegal, which faces tight budgetary constraints due to ballooning debt, has spent nearly all of its full-year allocation for fuel subsidies already. — Paige Bruton, semafor.com, 28 Aug. 2026

Projections from investment banks show the increase ballooning over the next few years. — Tobias Burns, CNBC, 27 Aug. 2026

It was supposed to be 40, but amid a ballooning budget, the city of Sacramento reduced the project to stay under the threshold that would give City Council the power to stop it. — Jennah Pendleton, Sacbee.com, 27 Aug. 2026

Word History

First Known Use

Noun

1784, in the meaning defined above

Rhymes for ballooning

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