balconing

A hotel in Mallorca, where numerous cases made it to the media.

Borrowed from Spanish balconing, itself a pseudo-anglicism from Spanish balcón (“balcony”, noun) +‎ -ing (suffix).

This pseudo-anglicism was coined in Spain as a result of many drunk British tourists attempting this stunt and dying/injuring themselves, thereby making it to the general public through media headlines. See the Wikipedia article for more information.

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• 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.

   • 2020 January 17, Stephen Burgen, “Balearic islands pass bill targeting boozy Brits abroad”, in The Guardian‎:

     The legislation also seeks to outlaw “balconing”, the practice of jumping into a swimming pool from a hotel balcony that kills several people each year. In future, hotels will have to evict anyone practising balconing or encouraging others to do so.

• balconing on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

• blancoing

balcón +‎ -ing

balconing m (uncountable)

1. balconing

• balconismo

balcón +‎ -ing

• IPA^(key): /balˈkonin/ [balˈko.nĩn]
• Rhymes: -onin

balconing m (uncountable)

1. (Spain) balconing [from 2010]

   Synonym: balconismo

   • 2011 August 21, Lucía Bohórquez, “El 'balconing' vuelve a matar en Baleares”, in El País‎, Madrid, →ISSN:

     A pesar de las advertencias de las autoridades y los hoteleros, el balconing ha vuelto a las islas. Los turistas, borrachos tras una juerga, tratan de saltar desde el balcón de la habitación del hotel hasta la piscina, en ocasiones jaleados por amigos y compañeros que tratan de inmortalizar el recuerdo del salto en un vídeo que después cuelgan en redes sociales.

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   • 2016 August 3, Carlos Garfella, “El ‘balconing’ y otros excesos del turismo masivo en España”, in El País‎, Madrid, →ISSN:

     Turistas entrando desnudos a comprar en supermercados, muertos por ‘balconing’, o fiestas de alto contenido sexual como la del “mamading” en Magaluf (Mallorca) son algunos de los efectos del turismo de borrachera y “low cost” que durante los últimos años han proliferado en las comunidades más turísticas de España.

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• → English: balconing

• balconing on the Spanish Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^es