Man playing water polo: medium-light skin tone Emoji

People

A man with medium-light skin wearing a swim cap and goggles, shown mid-throw while treading water. The blue background indicates he is submerged in a pool, actively engaged in a game of water polo.

Usage Context

Used to discuss swimming, aquatic sports, or competitive team activities. People often use this when talking about sports practice, Olympic games, or training sessions. It is frequently seen alongside the 🏊 or 🤽 emojis to emphasize water-based physical exertion.

History

Water polo was added to the Unicode standard in 2016 as part of a wider effort to diversify sports-related icons. The male and female variants were introduced to reflect professional sporting leagues and to standardize gender representation across competitive athletic emojis.

Details

Glyph

🤽🏼‍♂

Unicode

U+1F93D U+1F3FC U+200D U+2642

Shortcode

:emoji_u1f93d_1f3fc_200d_2642:

HTML Entity

&#xD83E;&#xDD3D;&#xD83C;&#xDFFC;‍♂

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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