Balloon (disambiguation)

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 film), a Chinese film
• Balloon (short film), a 2019 U.S. short 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

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", season 1 finale of Servant (TV 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, 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
• 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