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ballooning

Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English 5++朗文当代英语 5++LDOCE 5++朗文 5++
Related topics: Other sports, Air
bal·loon·ing /bəˈluːnɪŋ/ noun [uncountable]  DSOTTAthe sport of flying in a balloon 乘热气球飞行(运动)
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ballooningUnconventional sports, such as hang-gliding and hot-air ballooning, also continue to attract large numbers of students.Local Activities: Walks, golf, tennis, horse-riding, hot-air ballooning, cycling.Alternatively, try wild-water rafting or surfing; and for stunning views, hot air ballooning.A person who is scared of ballooning will nearly always fly the aircraft on to the ground instead of making well held-off landings.Sister Zoe jerked around, her full black skirt ballooning as she hurried to my side.Indeed, they can barely manage even to run, for they have only soft ballooning tubes to serve as stumpy legs.The danger here is that this ballooning could cut off the emergency cooling water altogether.There are two approaches to ballooning.
bal·loon·ing nounChineseSyllable
sport Corpus balloon a the of in flying


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ballooning
ballooning /bəˈluːnɪŋ/ noun [uncountable]
the sport of flying in a balloon