'balloon' is a correct and commonly used word in written English.
You can use the word 'balloon' in any context in which you are referring to an inflatable rubber or plastic bag filled with air or gas. Example sentence: At the carnival, the children enjoyed chasing after colorful balloons.
A proposed experiment to test a way to deliver particles into the upper atmosphere using a balloon and a one kilometre-long pipe was cancelled in 2012 after it was reported that two of the scientists involved had submitted patent applications that were similar to the techniques being proposed.
Osaka's Dōtonbori district is a Disneyland of food, where the restaurant signage includes a giant mechanical crab, a blowfish the size of a hot air balloon and a giant squid that puffs steam.
An away goal was always likely to be decisive, and when it arrived on 22 minutes through Nilsson – after United felt they should have been awarded a free-kick for a foul on Sturrock – the balloon had been pricked.
Above all there are the glances into a child's metropolis of toy shops and school gates, of hurdy-gurdy men and balloon sellers.
Now that all the elements are ready, use a balloon whisk to mix half the whipped cream into the melted chocolate until smooth and shiny.
Any points for Russia going down like a lead balloon in this room.
"I thought he'd want to walk up a mountain, do coastal walks, go up in a balloon," she says.
Felix Baumgartner is to jump from the largest helium-filled balloon ever built for manned flight and hurtle towards the Earth from near the edge of space, 23 miles up.
Over the past three years, we have experienced temperatures below -30C and nudging 50C, slept at 5,000m above sea level and 300m below it, watched the sun rise over Uluru and alpenglow illuminate Everest, seen killer whales play in the Indian Ocean and baby pandas snuggled in their cots, soared in a hot air balloon over Cappadocia and scrambled inside deserted pyramids.
This will manifest itself in a year-long programme of events and activities, including the launch of the world's first solar-powered hot-air balloon, a 30m walk-in blue whale sculpture – to be made by locals from recycled materials – and a cultural festival that will invite writers, artists, filmmakers, poets and architects to take part.
Nearly all inhaled the gas from a balloon to experience a short period of euphoria.
