Person playing water polo Emoji

People

A person shown from the waist up, treading water with one arm raised in the air as if preparing to throw a ball. The figure is typically depicted wearing a water polo cap with protective ear guards.

Usage Context

Used to discuss swimming sports, aquatic exercise, or the specific game of water polo. It is frequently sent by athletes, sports fans, or people planning a trip to the pool. It is often grouped with other aquatic sports symbols like 🏊 or ball-based sports like ⚽.

History

This emoji was introduced in Unicode 9.0 in 2016 as part of a push to increase gender-inclusive sports representation. It highlights the rigorous nature of water polo, a sport that gained international recognition in the late 19th century as one of the first team sports played in the modern Olympic Games.

Details

Glyph

🤽

Unicode

U+1F93D

Shortcode

:emoji_u1f93d:

HTML Entity

&#xD83E;&#xDD3D;

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

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