ballooning

CIDE DICTIONARY

ballooning, n. 

•  The art or practice of managing balloons or voyaging in them; the sport of riding in balloons.  [1913 Webster]
•  The process of temporarily raising the value of a stock, as by fictitious sales.  [1913 Webster]

THESAURUS

ballooning

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

ROGET THESAURUS

ballooning

Navigation

N navigation, aquatics, boating, yachting, ship, oar, paddle, screw, sail, canvas, aileron, natation, swimming, fin, flipper, fish's tail, aerostation, aerostatics, aeronautics, balloonery, balloon, ballooning, aviation, airmanship, flying, flight, volitation, wing, pinion, rocketry, space travel, astronautics, orbital mechanics, orbiting, voyage, sail, cruise, passage, circumnavigation, periplus, headway, sternway, leeway, fairway, mariner, flight, trip, shuttle, run, airlift, sailing, volant, aerostatic, seafaring, nautical, maritime, naval, seagoing, coasting, afloat, navigable, aerial, aeronautic, grallatory, under way, under sail, under canvas, under steam, on the wing, in flight, in orbit, bon voyage, spread the thin oar and catch the driving gale.