Balloon (disambiguation)
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A balloon is a flexible container for (partially or fully) confining a gas.
Balloon may also refer to:
Arts, entertainment, and media
Films
- Balloon (2017 film), a Tamil film by Sinish starring Jai, Anjali, and Janani Iyer
 - Balloon (2018 film), a German film about the East German balloon escape
 - Balloon (2019 American film), a 2019 U.S. short film
 - Balloon (2019 Chinese film), a Chinese drama film
 
Music
Artists
- Balloon (band), English musical duo
 - Keina Suda, Japanese musician also known under the name Balloon
 
Songs
- "Balloons" (song), by Foals, 2007
 - "Balloons", by TVXQ from "O"-Jung.Ban.Hap., 2006
 - "Balloon", by Tyler, The Creator from Chromakopia, 2024
 - "99 Red Balloons", "99 Luftballons", by Nena, 1983
 
Other arts, entertainment, and media
- Balloon (game)
 - Balloon (Merse), 1878 painting by Pál Szinyei Merse
 - Balloon, a TV ident for BBC Two from 1993 to 1997
 - BBC One 'Balloon' idents, better known as simply "Balloon", a series of television idents for BBC One from 1997 to 2002
 - 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
 - "Balloon" (Servant), a 2020 television episode
 - "Balloons" (The Flumps), a children's television episode
 - "The Balloon", an episode of the TV series Pocoyo
 
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, a key derivation function to 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)
 - Balloon effect, primarily in drug interdiction, where success against a problem in one place or form displaces it somewhere else
 - Construction technique of balloon framing
 - Mount Balloon, a mountain in New Zealand
 - Snifter, sometimes called a brandy balloon
 - Trial balloon, action to covertly gauge public interest
 - Balloon, a troop from the mobile games Clash of Clans and Clash Royale
 
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