Man bouncing ball: medium-dark skin tone Emoji

People

A man with medium-dark skin depicted in motion, bent at the knees while dribbling or preparing to shoot a basketball. The figure is shown mid-action, capturing the intensity of a playground game or a professional match.

Usage Context

Used to talk about sports, exercise, or attending a game. It is a go-to when discussing basketball culture, team spirit, or active hobbies. You might see this paired with the 🏀 or 🏆 emojis to show support for a favorite team or celebrate a victory.

History

This emoji began as a gender-neutral silhouette in early character sets. In 2016, with the rollout of Unicode 9.0, skin tone modifiers and gender-specific variants were added to allow for more accurate representation of athletes across global sports culture.

Details

Glyph

⛹🏾‍♂

Unicode

U+26F9 U+1F3FE U+200D U+2642

Shortcode

:emoji_u26f9_1f3fe_200d_2642:

HTML Entity

⛹&#xD83C;&#xDFFE;‍♂

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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