# Are you aware of the used of the term "balling" to mean having sex?

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-you-aware-of-the-used-of-the-term-balling-to-mean-having-sex/671539>\
**Category:** In My Humble Opinion\
**Created:** [October 18, 2013, 1:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-you-aware-of-the-used-of-the-term-balling-to-mean-having-sex/671539 "2013-10-18T01:20:49Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 2\
**Page:** 6

<div class="post-metadata">

**Author:** ![Jragon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/e19b73/32.png) [@Jragon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jragon)\
**Post date:** [December 11, 2013, 6:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-you-aware-of-the-used-of-the-term-balling-to-mean-having-sex/671539/101 "2013-12-11T18:06:24Z")

</div>

I’m 24, to me “ballin” is a, perhaps slightly (and intentionally?) hokey, term for “cool”.

I mean, I’m sure I could figure out it means sex in the proper context, but due to the Is That What They’re Calling It Nowadays principle, pretty much anything can be a transparent term for sex so that’s not surprising.

---

<div class="post-metadata">

**Author:** ![Simmerdown](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/simmerdown/32/14859_2.png) [@Simmerdown](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Simmerdown)\
**Post date:** [December 11, 2013, 6:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-you-aware-of-the-used-of-the-term-balling-to-mean-having-sex/671539/102 "2013-12-11T18:48:09Z")

</div>

Here’s [Ry Cooder’s](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jKRsmWtv7ag) take on it.

[Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-you-aware-of-the-used-of-the-term-balling-to-mean-having-sex/671539.md?page=5)