cloudbuilding

noun
UK /ˈklaʊdˌbɪldɪŋ/
US /ˈklaʊdˌbɪldɪŋ/

Cloudbuilding is when you look at clouds and imagine they are shapes like animals or castles.

On the sunny afternoon, the children lay on the grass and did some cloudbuilding, finding a dragon and a boat in the sky.


OTHER MEANINGS

2. The act of building or setting up computer services that run over the internet.

The company's cloudbuilding project moved all its files to online servers.

3. A playful made-up game where kids pretend to stack clouds into towers.

During recess, the kids played cloudbuilding, pretending to pile fluffy clouds into a giant castle.

4. The process of forming clouds in the sky.

Warm air rising over the hills led to cloudbuilding by midday.