balling

The word “balling” has 2 syllables: ball-ing

It's pronounced as /ˈbɔːlɪŋ/


What is synonym and antonym for balling?

In the thesaurus, “balling” has 12 synonyms and 6 antonyms.

Here are synonyms and antonyms for balling along with examples of usage in sentences.


Synonyms for balling

  • agglomerating
  • beading
  • bunching
  • clumping
  • lumping
  • pearling
  • pelleting
  • pelletizing
  • rolling
  • rounding
  • sphering
  • wadding

Antonyms for balling

  • flattening
  • opening
  • smoothing
  • spreading
  • unfolding
  • unrolling

Meanings of balling

  • verb
    1. To form or wind into a ball.
    2. To heat in a furnace and form into balls for rolling.
    3. To have sexual intercourse with.
    4. To gather balls which cling to the feet, as of damp snow or clay; to gather into balls.
    5. (usually in present participle) To be hip or cool.
    6. To play basketball.
    7. To punish by affixing a ball and chain.

Example Sentences

  • She's been balling all season, leading the league in scoring.
  • The basketball team was balling so well that they secured a spot in the playoffs.
  • Despite the rain, they were still balling on the outdoor court.
  • He's always balling in pickup games at the gym, showing off his skills.
  • The soccer team was balling yesterday, dominating the match with their precise passing and aggressive defense.

On this page you'll find 18 synonyms, antonyms, or another words to balling, such as: agglomerating, beading, bunching, clumping, flattening, lumping, opening.

Make sure to choose synonyms and antonyms that are appropriate for the context of the sentence.

Related Words

accelerating

  • accentuating
  • accumulating
  • advanced
  • advancing
  • aggrandizing
  • aiding
  • amassing
  • amplifying
  • appreciating
  • augmenting
  • ballooning
  • blowing up
  • booming
  • boosting
  • bourgeoning
  • building
  • building up
  • bulking
  • bundling
  • burgeoning
  • climbing
  • collecting
  • complementing
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  • continuing
  • continuous
  • crescendoing
  • cresting
  • deepening
  • developing
  • dilating
  • dispatching
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  • dominant
  • drawing out
  • driving
  • dynamic
  • easing
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  • emphasizing
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  • enhancing
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  • enterprising
  • escalating
  • evolving
  • expanding
  • expediting
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  • fast-tracking
  • following up
  • gaining
  • go ahead
  • goading
  • graduated
  • growing
  • hastening
  • heightening
  • hurrying
  • hyping
  • improving
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  • jumping
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  • peaking
  • prodding
  • progressing
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  • pumping up
  • pushing
  • quickening
  • racing
  • raising
  • redoubling
  • reenforcing
  • reinforcing
  • rising
  • rocketing
  • rolling up
  • rushing
  • sharpening
  • skyrocketing
  • snowballing
  • spiking
  • spreading
  • spurring
  • stirring
  • stoking
  • strengthening
  • stretching
  • supersizing
  • supplementing
  • surging
  • swelling
  • up-and-coming
  • up-to-date
  • upping
  • urging
  • waxing
  • whisking

accumulating

  • accelerating
  • accreting
  • accretion
  • accrual
  • accumulation
  • acquiring
  • acquisition
  • addition
  • agglomeration
  • agglutinating
  • aggregating
  • amassing
  • amassment
  • amplification
  • anthology
  • appreciating
  • archiving
  • arranging
  • assemblage
  • assembling
  • assembly
  • assortment
  • augmentation
  • augmenting
  • balling
  • ballooning
  • banding
  • banking
  • batch
  • batching
  • blowing up
  • booming
  • boost
  • bourgeoning
  • brigading
  • bringing together
  • broadening
  • building up
  • bulking
  • bunching
  • burgeoning
  • caboodle
  • climbing
  • clump
  • clumping
  • cluster
  • clustering
  • collating
  • collation
  • collecting
  • collection
  • collocating
  • combination
  • combining
  • company
  • compilation
  • compiling
  • concentrating
  • congeries
  • conglomerating
  • congregating
  • congregation
  • connecting
  • consolidating
  • constellating
  • convocation
  • corralling
  • creep
  • crescendoing
  • cresting
  • crowd
  • cumulation
  • developing
  • digest
  • distending
  • distension
  • distention
  • doubling
  • drifting
  • enlargement
  • enlarging
  • escalating
  • escalation
  • expanding
  • expansion
  • extension
  • flocking
  • flourishing
  • gain
  • gaining
  • garner
  • garnering
  • gathering
  • getting big
  • getting together
  • grouping
  • growing
  • growth
  • heap
  • heaping
  • heightening
  • herding
  • hike
  • hiving
  • hoard
  • huddling
  • incorporating
  • increase
  • increasing
  • increment
  • inflating
  • inflation
  • intensifying
  • joining
  • jumping
  • kit
  • lengthening
  • levy
  • linking
  • lot
  • lumping
  • mass
  • massing
  • maturing
  • medley
  • merging
  • mess
  • miscellany
  • mobilization
  • mounting
  • multiplication
  • multiplying
  • mushrooming
  • muster
  • mustering
  • number
  • obtaining
  • omnibus
  • organizing
  • packing
  • peaking
  • picking up
  • pile
  • piling
  • piling up
  • pooling
  • pressing
  • proliferating
  • proliferation
  • quadrupling
  • quantity
  • raising
  • rallying
  • re-collecting
  • redoubling
  • regathering
  • regrouping
  • ridging
  • rise
  • rising
  • rocketing
  • rolling up
  • rounding up
  • securing
  • selection
  • set
  • skyrocketing
  • snowballing
  • spread
  • spreading
  • sprouting
  • stack
  • stacking
  • stock
  • stockpile
  • store
  • surging
  • swarming
  • swelling
  • systematizing
  • thronging
  • treasury
  • tripling
  • unifying
  • uniting
  • waxing
  • widening

bagging

  • abandoning
  • abducting
  • accomplishing
  • accumulating
  • achieving
  • acquiring
  • amassing
  • annexing
  • apprehending
  • approaching
  • arresting
  • attaining
  • ballooning
  • baying
  • beating
  • beetling
  • bellying
  • billowing
  • blowing up
  • bringing in
  • bulging
  • bunching
  • capturing
  • carrying
  • catching
  • chalking up
  • chucking
  • clasping
  • clearing
  • clutching
  • collaring
  • coming by
  • copping
  • cornering
  • corralling
  • detaining
  • dilating
  • distending
  • doming
  • drawing
  • earning
  • elongating
  • enmeshing
  • ensnaring
  • entangling
  • entrapping
  • equaling
  • equalling
  • excelling
  • expanding
  • extending
  • fisting
  • gaining
  • garnering
  • getting
  • giving notice
  • glomming
  • gloving
  • grabbing
  • grappling
  • grasping
  • gripping
  • grossing
  • haltering
  • hitting
  • holding
  • hooking
  • immeshing
  • inflating
  • jutting
  • kidnaping
  • kidnapping
  • knocking down
  • landing
  • lassoing
  • leaving
  • lengthening
  • logging
  • making
  • matching
  • meeting
  • meshing
  • mushrooming
  • nabbing
  • nailing
  • netting
  • nobbling
  • obtaining
  • occupying
  • outdoing
  • overhanging
  • picking up
  • poking
  • pooching
  • pouching
  • pouting
  • procuring
  • projecting
  • protruding
  • pulling down
  • quitting
  • racking up
  • rapping
  • reacquiring
  • realizing
  • reaping
  • reattaining
  • recapturing
  • regaining
  • remaking
  • rending
  • ringing up
  • rivaling
  • rivalling
  • roping
  • scoring
  • securing
  • seizing
  • snagging
  • snaring
  • snatching
  • snowballing
  • standing out
  • starting
  • sticking out
  • stretching
  • surpassing
  • swelling
  • taking over
  • throwing up
  • tieing
  • topping
  • touching
  • trapping
  • tying
  • vacating
  • winning
  • wresting

ballooning

  • accelerating
  • accumulating
  • aeronautics
  • appreciating
  • aviation
  • bagging
  • ballooned
  • beetling
  • bellying
  • billowing
  • bloated
  • blowing up
  • blown
  • blown up
  • booming
  • bourgeoning
  • building up
  • bulging
  • bulking
  • bunching
  • burgeoning
  • climbing
  • crescendoing
  • cresting
  • dilated
  • dilating
  • distended
  • distending
  • doming
  • elongating
  • enlarging
  • escalating
  • expanded
  • expanding
  • extending
  • flight
  • flying
  • gaining
  • gliding
  • hang gliding
  • heightening
  • increasing
  • inflating
  • intensifying
  • jumping
  • jutting
  • lengthening
  • mounting
  • multiplying
  • mushrooming
  • overhanging
  • overinflated
  • paragliding
  • peaking
  • poking
  • pooching
  • pouching
  • pouting
  • projecting
  • proliferating
  • protruding
  • protuberant
  • puffed
  • redoubling
  • rising
  • rocketing
  • rolling up
  • skydiving
  • skyrocketing
  • snowballing
  • soaring
  • spreading
  • standing out
  • starting
  • sticking out
  • stretching
  • surging
  • swelling
  • swollen
  • tumescent
  • tumid
  • turgescent
  • turgid
  • varicose
  • varicosed
  • ventricose
  • waxing

banning

  • ban
  • banishing
  • barring
  • bidding
  • blackballing
  • blacklisting
  • blocking
  • bridling
  • ceasing
  • charging
  • checking
  • checking off
  • closing out
  • coercion
  • compulsion
  • constraint
  • crushing
  • curbing
  • debarring
  • decreeing
  • deporting
  • depriving
  • deterrence
  • deterring
  • dictation
  • direction
  • disallowance
  • disallowing
  • discontinuing
  • discouragement
  • discouraging
  • disregarding
  • dissuading
  • eliminating
  • embargo
  • embargoing
  • enjoining
  • excepting
  • excluding
  • excommunicating
  • exiling
  • expelling
  • forbidding
  • force
  • freezing out
  • halting
  • hindering
  • impeding
  • inhibiting
  • instruction
  • interdict
  • interdicting
  • interdiction
  • obstructing
  • obviating
  • off-limits
  • ostracizing
  • ousting
  • outlawing
  • precluding
  • preventing
  • prohibiting
  • prohibition
  • proscribing
  • proscription
  • putting down
  • quashing
  • quelling
  • rejecting
  • repressing
  • repression
  • repudiating
  • restraining
  • restriction
  • ruling out
  • shutting out
  • silencing
  • squashing
  • squelching
  • staving off
  • stopping
  • subduing
  • suppressing
  • suppression
  • suspending
  • throwing out
  • vetoing

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