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Balconing is jumping off a hotel balcony into a swimming pool, or from one balcony to another, for a thrill. The word was made up in Spain, not in Britain or America: Spanish took their word for balcony, balcón, and stuck the English ending -ing on it, the way English makes swimming or jumping. It spread because British tourists, often drunk, kept trying the stunt on Spanish holiday coasts, and newspapers filled with the injuries and deaths. It is not a sport. You will mostly meet the word in news about tourism and safety, not in everyday talk in London or New York.
跳陽台、陽台跳水（西班牙造的「英文詞」；台灣沒有慣用對等詞，不是「站在陽台上」）
組成Spanish balcón (balcony) + English -ing. A pseudo-English word coined in Spain.
同家族的字
- balconySpanish balcón is the same thing as English balcony; balconing was built from that plus -ing
原始詞典資料2 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，原文照列，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
balconingnoun/ˈbælkənɪŋ/
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The act of jumping between the balconies of two hotel rooms; especially of tourists in Spain.
- 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.
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The act of jumping from a balcony towards a swimming pool.
- 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.
- 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.
資料來源：英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary（CC BY-SA 4.0）。 原文照列，未經改寫。