Man playing handball Emoji

People

A male athlete mid-jump, captured in the motion of throwing or lobbing a ball with one hand. This figure is depicted in a standard athletic stance, clearly geared for a competitive team sport.

Usage Context

Used to discuss handball matches, gym class activities, or general interest in throwing sports. It is frequently sent during the Olympics or international tournaments alongside other activity icons like ⚽ or 🏀 to highlight physical training and competition.

History

This emoji was added to the Unicode standard in 2016 as part of the effort to increase gender representation in athletic icons. It builds upon the technical foundations of earlier sports-related pictograms used in mobile messaging to allow users to specify gender in fitness-related shorthand.

Details

Glyph

🤾‍♂

Unicode

U+1F93E U+200D U+2642

Shortcode

:emoji_u1f93e_200d_2642:

HTML Entity

&#xD83E;&#xDD3E;‍♂

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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