Person bouncing ball: medium skin tone Emoji

People

A figure with medium skin tone depicted in mid-motion, dribbling or bouncing a ball. The illustration captures a dynamic sports pose that emphasizes movement and physical activity.

Usage Context

Used to discuss basketball games, sports practice, or general fitness. It acts as a quick way to signal you are heading to the court or watching a live match. It is frequently sent alongside 🏀 to emphasize the sport or 🔥 to highlight an impressive play.

History

This emoji originated as a gender-neutral icon before being updated to support skin tone modifiers in 2016. Its design is rooted in the expansion of human-centric emojis, aiming to make digital communication more inclusive of diverse physical activities and identities in the era of mobile messaging.

Details

Glyph

⛹🏽

Unicode

U+26F9 U+1F3FD

Shortcode

:emoji_u26f9_1f3fd:

HTML Entity

⛹&#xD83C;&#xDFFD;

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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