Person playing water polo: medium-light skin tone Emoji

People

A figure treading water while reaching up to throw a water polo ball. This variant depicts a person with medium-light skin tone, showcasing the intensity of the sport where players must stay afloat while coordinating a pass or shot.

Usage Context

Used to discuss swimming, aquatic sports, or specifically the fast-paced game of water polo. It is frequently sent during major international competitions or by athletes heading to the pool. It pairs well with other sports equipment like ⚽ or aquatic themes like 🏊.

History

Water polo was one of the first team sports added to the modern Olympic program in 1900. This emoji was added to the Unicode standard in 2016 as part of an effort to increase representation in sports-related icons, following the expansion of diverse skin tone modifiers introduced the previous year.

Details

Glyph

🤽🏼

Unicode

U+1F93D U+1F3FC

Shortcode

:emoji_u1f93d_1f3fc:

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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