Man bouncing ball: dark skin tone Emoji

People

A dark-skinned man in a mid-motion jump, dribbling a basketball. The design captures the kinetic energy of a player pushing off the court to launch a shot or navigate around a defender.

Usage Context

This emoji is frequently used to discuss sports, hype up an upcoming game, or celebrate a victory on the court. It pairs well with the 🏀 basketball or 🏆 trophy emojis to signal fan enthusiasm or participation in recreational sports.

History

While the base person bouncing ball emoji was included in earlier Unicode releases, the ability to modify skin tones was added in Unicode 8.0 in 2015. This update was part of a major industry-wide push to make digital representation more inclusive and diverse across global platforms.

Details

Glyph

⛹🏿‍♂

Unicode

U+26F9 U+1F3FF U+200D U+2642

Shortcode

:emoji_u26f9_1f3ff_200d_2642:

HTML Entity

⛹&#xD83C;&#xDFFF;‍♂

Specifications

Vendor Microsoft

Category People

Subcategory person-sport

Unicode Version 6.0

Emoji Version 1.0

License MIT

Microsoft Fluent License

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