Person bouncing ball: medium-dark skin tone Emoji

People

A figure with medium-dark skin depicted in mid-motion while dribbling a ball. The character is shown in a crouched, active stance, signaling movement and physical coordination.

Usage Context

This emoji is frequently used to discuss basketball games, team sports, or physical exercise. It acts as a quick way to signal you are headed to the gym or to talk about a live match. It is often sent alongside the 🏀 emoji to specify the sport.

History

This character originated as a gender-neutral silhouette in early character sets. As platform support for diverse skin tones expanded through Unicode 8.0 in 2015, the ability to apply modifiers like the medium-dark skin tone allowed users to better represent athletes of different backgrounds in digital conversations.

Details

Glyph

⛹🏾

Unicode

U+26F9 U+1F3FE

Shortcode

:emoji_u26f9_1f3fe:

HTML Entity

⛹&#xD83C;&#xDFFE;

Specifications

Vendor Google

Category People

Subcategory person-sport

Unicode Version 6.0

Emoji Version 1.0

License Apache-2.0 / OFL-1.1

Google Noto License

Emoji graphics by Google. © Google Inc. Licensed under Apache License 2.0 and SIL Open Font License 1.1 where applicable.

Noto Color Emoji graphics are copyrighted by Google Inc. and licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0. Font files may also be subject to the SIL Open Font License, Version 1.1.

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