Balloon (disambiguation)

A balloon is a flexible container for (partially or fully) confining a gas.

Balloon may also refer to:

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

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