Person playing handball: light skin tone Emoji

People

A figure depicted in motion with a light skin tone, mid-air or mid-stride, with one arm raised as if preparing to throw a ball. The design captures the dynamic posture of a player in a competitive team sport.

Usage Context

Used to discuss handball matches, gym class activities, or general athletic prowess. It serves as a go-to for sports enthusiasts looking to highlight a fast-paced game or a specific throwing technique. It is frequently grouped with equipment like the ⚽ or general sports signals like 🥇.

History

This emoji was added to the Unicode standard in 2016 as part of the expansion of sports-related pictographs. It was developed to provide more diverse representations of popular international games that weren't as globally codified as soccer or basketball in earlier digital sets.

Details

Glyph

🤾🏻

Unicode

U+1F93E U+1F3FB

Shortcode

:emoji_u1f93e_1f3fb:

HTML Entity

&#xD83E;&#xDD3E;&#xD83C;&#xDFFB;

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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