Man playing water polo: medium skin tone Emoji

People

A man with a medium skin tone caught in the middle of a swimming stroke, holding a yellow ball above the water. The image depicts the intense physical effort of the sport, showing the athlete treading water while preparing to throw.

Usage Context

Used to discuss water sports, aquatic fitness, or summer activities. It often appears in conversations about team sports or when someone is heading to the pool for a workout. It is frequently grouped with related sports icons like 🏊 or 🤽 to indicate a day of swimming or competition.

History

This emoji was added to the Unicode standard in 2016 as part of the effort to diversify gender and skin tone options for athletic activities. It reflects the broader integration of complex sports representations into messaging platforms to accommodate global interest in Olympic-style events.

Details

Glyph

🤽🏽‍♂

Unicode

U+1F93D U+1F3FD U+200D U+2642

Shortcode

:emoji_u1f93d_1f3fd_200d_2642:

HTML Entity

&#xD83E;&#xDD3D;&#xD83C;&#xDFFD;‍♂

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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