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Definition of Ballooning
1. Noun. Flying in a balloon.
Definition of Ballooning
1. n. The art or practice of managing balloons or voyaging in them.
Definition of Ballooning
1. Adjective. growing rapidly as a balloon ¹
2. Adjective. rising high in the air ¹
3. Noun. the sport or hobby of flying in a balloon ¹
4. Verb. (present participle of balloon) ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Ballooning
1. [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Ballooning
Literary usage of Ballooning
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Romance of Aeronautics: An Interesting Account of the Growth by Charles Cyril Turner (1912)
"ballooning was long ago perceived to have reached its best; ... Yet the history
of ballooning teems with exciting incidents, from which, however, ..."
2. The Century Illustrated Monthly Magazine (1904)
"The club has made ballooning very easy not only for its members, but for outsiders,
who may be invited to take trips with members, and enjoy all the ..."
3. My Air-ships by A[lberto] Santos-Dumont (1904)
"CHAPTER V THE REAL AND THE IMAGINARY DANGERS OF ballooning ONE of the most
astonishing adventures I had during this period of spherical ballooning took ..."
4. Life-zone Indicators in California by Harvey Monroe Hall, Marcos Sastre, William Hamilton Gibson, Joseph Grinnell (1919)
"... and one of the rarest of our ballooning seeds, being the fruit of the
oyster-plant, a species having escaped from gardens, but now becoming naturalized. ..."
5. The Dictionary of National Biography by Sidney Lee (1908)
"... who had frequently made ascents in his company, continued to gain a livelihood
by ballooning. [Gent. Mag. 3850, pt. ii. 668; Annual Register, 1850; ..."
6. The Popular Science MonthlyScien (1893)
"ballooning. Travel by balloon (Misc.), 29 : 428. Use of the balloon in arctic
exploration (Misc.), 1* : 837. Aerial navigation. ..."
7. The Popular Science Monthly by Harry Houdini Collection (Library of Congress) (1885)
"Nearly seventy years elapsed before his idea, independently evolved by another,
was put to the test ; and during this interval ballooning was but rarely ..."
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