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- This is a list of uses of balloons
* tiny
* balloon catheter
* balloon tamponade
* Graphene balloons
* small (volume of a few litres)
* gas balloon
* Balloon Drop
* cluster ballooning
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* toy balloon
* water balloon
* papier-mâché
* balloon modelling
* decoration
* solar balloon
* balloon mail as part of a balloon flight competition or to spread information
* balloon helicopter
* balloon rocket, demonstration of rocket propulsion
* ceiling balloon
* decoys accompanying ICBMs in midcourse, see also countermeasure
* A vessel for storing nitrous oxide prior to inhalation for use as a recreational drug
* medium (volume of tens to thousands of litres)
* free flying
* high-altitude balloon
* hopper balloon
* fire balloon for the transport of bombs (in World War II, FUGO-Balloon)
* transport of propaganda (in World War II and in the Cold War)
* ceiling balloon
* weather balloon used with a radiosonde
* fixed
* for carrying advertising signs
* to carry a radio antenna
* toy balloon
* research balloon
* Skyhook balloon
* superpressure balloon
* other
* balloon tires, for vehicles that require low ground pressures
* large (volume up to 12,000,000 litres)
* free flying
* balloon (aircraft)
* lifting people, or daring prison escapes, usually with a hot air balloon, Rozière balloon or a gas balloon
* airship, a steerable balloon
* hybrid airship, which combines characteristics of heavier-than-air (HTA) technology, fixed-wing aircraft or helicopter, and lighter-than-air (LTA), aerostat technology.
* research balloon with instrumentation, also to carry telescopes
* rockoon, a carrier for rockets.
* balloon satellite for space research.
* espionage balloon for military reconnaissance
* hopper balloon
* fixed
* as manned observation post (before World War II)
* barrage balloon
* observation balloon for military reconnaissance
* positioning atomic bombs for bomb tests in the atmosphere
* moored balloon (en)
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