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

France’s challenges mounted as concerns over its ballooning debt weighed on economic activity and reverberated across Europe. — Prashant Rao, semafor.com, 8 Oct. 2026

London — France’s unprecedented wave of student protests has laid bare the country’s growing financial pressures, which will only become more difficult to tackle as Europe’s second-largest economy tries to rein in a ballooning budget deficit. — Hanna Ziady, CNN Money, 7 Oct. 2026

Bond yields would increase, and financing the ballooning national debt would become even harder. — Sasha Rogelberg, Fortune, 7 Oct. 2026

DeepSeek's decision to open up to external funding was seen as a sign of AI's ballooning capital demand and mounting pressure to retain talent amid intensifying competition. — Anniek Bao, CNBC, 6 Oct. 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