Balloon (disambiguation)

A balloon is a flexible container for (partially or fully) confining a gas. Balloon may also refer to:

Types of balloon

• Balloon (aeronautics)
  • Gas balloon
  • High-altitude balloon
  • Hot air balloon
  • Observation balloon
  • Research balloon
  • Solar balloon
• Tethered balloon or moored balloon or captive balloon, a balloon that is restrained by one or more tethers attached to the ground and so cannot float freely
• Tethered helium balloon
  • Weather balloon
• Toy balloon

Arts, entertainment, and media

Films

• Balloon (1982 film), an Indian Malayalam film by Ravi Gupthan starring Mammootty
• Balloon (2017 film), a Tamil film by Sinish starring Jai, Anjali, and Janani Iyer
• Balloon (2019 film), a Chinese film

Music

• Balloon (band)
• "Balloons" (song), a song by Foals

Other arts, entertainment, and media

• Balloon (game)
• Balloon (Merse), an 1878 painting by Pál Szinyei Merse
• BBC One 'Balloon' idents, better known as simply "Balloon", a series of television idents for BBC One from 1997 to 2000
• Balloon, member of one of the classes of fairy chess pieces
• Speech balloon, including thought balloon, scream balloon, etc.
• Balloon Battle, a gameplay mode in Nintendo's Mario Kart series

Computing and technology

• Balloon help, a help system introduced by Apple Computer in their 1991 release of System 7.0
• Balloon, blown up short pin able to carry an indicating letter within as markers for positions on maps, as in Google maps
• Balloon hashing is a key derivation function to securely compute hashes for passwords

Economics and finance

• Balloon payment mortgage
• Balloon, economic bubble

Transportation

• Balloon loop, a track system to allow trains to reverse direction
• English Electric Balloon tram, type of double-deck tramcar used in Blackpool, England

Other uses

• Balloon (typeface)
• Construction technique of balloon framing
• Snifter, Brandy balloon
• Trial balloon, action to covertly gauge public interest

See also

• Air balloon (disambiguation)
• Ballon (disambiguation)
• Ballooning (disambiguation)
• Balun, an impedance converter
• Blimp
• Bloons
• List of balloon uses, terms containing the word
• Pig bladder
• Pneumatic bladder