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 The Balloon, a 1946 Swedish comedy 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 "Balloons", an episode of The Flumps 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" (Beavis and Butt-Head), a 1993 television episode "Balloon" (Servant), a 2020 television episode "Balloons" (The Flumps), a children's television episode "The Balloon", an episode of the TV series Pocoyo "The Balloons", an episode of the TV series King Rollo
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