Skip to main content
Glite Dictionary
🎈 Hot-air flight 📈 Rapidly increasing
ballooning

ballooning

8 3.6
An activity in which people fly in a hot-air balloon
  • noun
  • /bəˈluːnɪŋ/
: paseo en globo
  • " I know that some states are really keen on things like hot air ballooning, so that's something I'd like to try.

One was hot air ballooning and one was something else.

Autoplay Next

Examples

  • In the Gay Nineties, ballooning really got off the ground.

    The Hindenburg (1975)

  • Experiencing ballooning over the valley was a breathtaking adventure with stunning views.

  • First two weeks of November I am going to a huge ballooning festival in Rio.

    Drive Me Crazy (1999)

  • Fancy and the Science of Ballooning

    Academic text (2017)

  • I was thinking this weekend we could go horse-back riding, hot-air ballooning.

    Chiles xalapeños (2008)

  • The hot-air ballooning event attracted many tourists eager to see the landscape from the sky.

  • She always dreamed of ballooning during the summer to enjoy the cool air and beautiful scenery.

Surface Forms

ballooning singular
balloonings plural

Morphology

ballooning = balloon (transparent) = balloon + ing

Standard gerund/nominalization from the verb 'balloon' indicating the activity of flying in a balloon.

Etymology

Ballooning comes from balloon, a word for a large 'ball' filled with air or hot gas that can rise into the sky; so ballooning is the activity of flying in that big air 'ball'.