ballooning
Meaning of ballooning
noun
- the sport or pastime of flying in a balloon.
he took up ballooning in 1907
a ballooning accident
- swell out in a spherical shape.
the trousers ballooned out below his waist
- (with reference to a ball) lob or be lobbed high in the air.
the ball ballooned into the air
- travel by hot-air balloon.
he is famous for ballooning across oceans
late 16th century (originally denoting a game played with a large inflated leather ball): from French ballon or Italian ballone ‘large ball’.
Information about ballooning
- The plural form of ballooning is: balloonings.
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Hyphenation of ballooning
bal-loon-ing
- It consists of 3 syllables and 10 chars.
- ballooning is a word trisyllabic because it has three syllables
ballooning synonyms
Meaning (of clothes, especially trousers) form loose bulges due to wear:
Meaning fill (a balloon, tyre, or other expandable structure) with air or gas so that it becomes distended:
Meaning swell or cause to swell by pressure from inside:
Meaning become or make larger or more extensive:
Meaning make or become wider, larger, or more open:
ballooning antonyms
Meaning sink, subside, or bulge downwards under weight or pressure or through lack of strength:
Meaning (of a bird) move (its wings) up and down when flying or preparing to fly:
Words that rhyme with ballooning
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