Snowballing
# Snowballing

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:

## Behavior

* Snowballing (sexual practice), the act of spitting semen into a partner's mouth after oral sex

## Economy

* A situation in which the exercise of stop orders 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: 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
* A PvP element in the winter event of the online role-playing game series Guild Wars
* When an enemy faction or group keeps gaining territory and becomes unstoppable

## Science and engineering

* In social science research, snowball sampling, or "snowballing": a technique for developing a research sample
* In researching a field, snowballing is another name for Pearl growing
* In chemical and industrial engineering, snowballing is the second and last phase, after aggregation, of the pelletization process.

## Other uses

* Bataille de boules de neige, an 1896 French silent film also known as Snowballing
