ballooning vs snowballing

ballooning

adj
  • Growing rapidly as a balloon. 

  • Rising high in the air. 

noun
  • The act of something that swells or expands. 

  • The sport or hobby of flying in a hot-air balloon. 

  • The mechanical kiting used by spiders, mites, caterpillars, etc. to travel through the air. 

snowballing

How often have the words ballooning and snowballing occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )