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English

Verb

ballooning

Noun

the sport or hobby of flying in a balloon
:When he retired, he took up ballooning.

Adjective

growing rapidly as a balloon
:The ballooning economy was out of control.
rising high in the air
:The cricketer hit a ballooning shot for six runs.

ta:ballooning vi:ballooning zh:ballooning

GNU Project's publication of CIDE, the Collaborative International Dictionary of English Ballooning \Bal*loon"ing\, n.
1. The art or practice of managing balloons or voyaging in
them; the sport of riding in balloons.

Syn: balloonry (archaic)
[1913 Webster +PJC]

2. (Stock Exchange) The process of temporarily raising the
value of a stock, as by fictitious sales. [U.S.]
[1913 Webster]

WordNet ballooning
n : flying in a balloon

Moby Dictionary
access , accession , accretion , accrual , accruement , accumulation ,
addition , advance , aeronautics , aggrandizement , air service ,
airline , amplification , appreciation , ascent , astronautics ,
augmentation , aviation , bagging , baggy , bellying , billowing ,
billowy , blind flying , bloated , bloating , boom , boost , bosomy ,
broadening , buildup , bulbose , bulbous , bulging , bumped , bumpy ,
bunched , bunchy , cloud-seeding , commercial aviation ,
contact flying , crescendo , cruising , development , distended ,
drooping , droopy , edema , elevation , enlargement , expansion ,
extension , flight , flood , floppy , flying , gain , general aviation ,
gliding , greatening , growth , gush , hike , hillocky , hummocky ,
increase , increment , inflation , jump , leap , limp , loose , lop ,
lop-eared , loppy , mounting , moutonnee , multiplication , nodding ,
pilotage , pneumatic , potbellied , pouching , productiveness ,
proliferation , raise , rise , rounded , sagging , sagging in folds ,
saggy , sailing , sailplaning , snowballing , soaring , spread , surge ,
swag , swelling , tumescence , up , upping , upsurge , upswing , uptrend ,
upturn , verrucated , verrucose , warty , waxing , widening , winging