Man bouncing ball: medium-light skin tone Emoji

People

A figure with medium-light skin tone captured in mid-air while bouncing a basketball. The design shows the person with bent knees, holding the ball near the waist, mimicking the motion of a layup or dribbling maneuver.

Usage Context

Used to talk about sports, pickup games, or hitting the local court. It serves as a quick way to signal a love for basketball or to announce that you are heading out to play. It is frequently sent alongside 🏀 or 👟 to complete the sports-themed message.

History

This emoji was created by combining the base person bouncing ball character with specific skin tone modifiers introduced in the Unicode 8.0 update in 2015. This was part of a broader push to allow users to represent themselves more accurately within digital communication.

Details

Glyph

⛹🏼‍♂

Unicode

U+26F9 U+1F3FC U+200D U+2642

Shortcode

:emoji_u26f9_1f3fc_200d_2642:

HTML Entity

⛹&#xD83C;&#xDFFC;‍♂

Specifications

Vendor Google

Category People

Subcategory person-sport

Unicode Version 6.0

Emoji Version 1.0

License CC-BY 4.0

Google Noto License

Emoji graphics by Twitter/X, licensed under CC-BY 4.0

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