noun. The art or practice of ascending in and of managing balloons.

noun. In political and stock-exchange slang, the operation of booming a candidate, or of inflating the money-market, by means of fictitious favorable reports.

noun. In a steam-boiler, the lifting of scum on the surface of the water by the liberation of steam from it.

noun. The art or practice of managing balloons or voyaging in them; the sport of riding in balloons.

noun. The process of temporarily raising the value of a stock, as by fictitious sales.

adjective. growing rapidly as a balloon

adjective. rising high in the air

noun. the sport or hobby of flying in a balloon

verb. Present participle of balloon.

noun. flying in a balloon

"Friends said that ballooning is in Abruzzo's blood."

flight  flying  

cartooning  cocooning  communing  crooning  impugning  

access  accession  accretion  accrual  accruement  

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