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

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

Other uses

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