balconing

Borrowed from Spanish balconing, itself a creative anglicism from Spanish substantive balcón and English suffix -ing. Equivalent to balcony +‎ -ing.

• Hyphenation: bal‧con‧ing

balconing (uncountable)

1. The act of going from one (hotel) room to another room by jumping from the balcony of one room to the balcony of the other.
   • 2015 June 5, Hugh Morris, “Magaluf to fine tourists who get naked in the street: The Spanish resort is clamping down on anti-social behaviour to clean up its image”, in The Daily Telegraph‎, archived from the original on 23 June 2015:

     Drunken revellers planning to over-indulge in Magaluf this summer face fines of up to €3,000 for urinating, being naked in the street or “balconing”, the craze of jumping from hotel balconies. New rules which come into force next week are part of a clampdown on the type of behaviour that has led to the Spanish resort being associated with debauchery tourism.

2. The act of jumping from a balcony towards a swimming pool.
   • 2013 September 2, “Man dies ‘balconing’ at Majorca hotel”, in Sky News‎, archived from the original on 4 November 2014:

     A man in his 20s has died in a fall from his hotel room balcony in the resort of Magaluf, Majorca. The young man fell through the cracks of a balcony in the early hours of Monday while allegedly practising what is known as “balconing” – which involves jumping from balcony to balcony, or into a pool from a balcony.

balcón +‎ -ing

balconing m (uncountable)

1. balconing

• balconismo

balcón +‎ -ing

balconing m (uncountable)

1. balconing

• balconismo