# Snowballing

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**Snowballing** often refers to a situation which rapidly gets out of control, as when a snow ball grows larger while rolling downhill.

Snowballing might also refer to:

## Economy

- A situation in which the exercise of [stop orders](/source/Stop_order) in a declining market or advancing market or specific share creates further downward or upward pressure, triggering more stop orders, magnifying the decline or advance
- [Debt-snowball method](/source/Debt-snowball_method): A method of paying down credit card debt by paying the minimum on all balances, except the one with the highest interest rate

## Games

- The throwing of [snowballs](/source/Snowball)
- [Snowballing (gaming)](/source/Snowballing_(gaming)), a situation where a player or faction is able to leverage a small advantage into a larger and larger advantage.

## Science and engineering

- In social science research, [snowball sampling](/source/Snowball_sampling), or "snowballing": a technique for developing a research sample
- In researching a field, snowballing is another name for [Pearl growing](/source/Pearl_growing)
- In [chemical](/source/Chemical_engineering) and [industrial engineering](/source/Industrial_engineering), snowballing is the second and last phase, after aggregation, of the [pelletization](/source/Pelletization) process.

## Other uses

- *[Bataille de boules de neige](/source/Bataille_de_boules_de_neige)*, an 1896 French silent film also known as *Snowballing*
- [Snowballing (sexual practice)](/source/Snowballing_(sexual_practice)), the act of spitting semen into a partner's mouth after oral sex

## See also

- [Snowball (disambiguation)](/source/Snowball_(disambiguation))
- [Snowball](/source/Snowball), a spherical object made from snow

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