Person bouncing ball: dark skin tone Emoji

People

A figure with dark skin, shown in profile, mid-jump while clutching a basketball. The pose captures the exact moment of a drive toward the hoop, emphasizing athletic motion.

Usage Context

Used to discuss basketball games, fitness routines, or general sports fandom. It serves as a quick shorthand for someone heading to the court or watching a live game. It is frequently paired with 🏀 to specify the sport or 🏆 when talking about playoffs and championships.

History

This emoji originated from the expansion of human-representation characters in the mid-2010s. By incorporating skin tone modifiers via the Fitzpatrick scale, platforms aimed to make digital communication more inclusive, allowing users to better mirror their own physical appearance in sports and hobby-related messaging.

Details

Glyph

⛹🏿

Unicode

U+26F9 U+1F3FF

Shortcode

:emoji_u26f9_1f3ff:

HTML Entity

⛹&#xD83C;&#xDFFF;

Specifications

Vendor Google

Category People

Subcategory person-sport

Unicode Version 6.0

Emoji Version 1.0

License CC-BY 4.0

Google Noto License

Emoji graphics by Twitter/X, licensed under CC-BY 4.0

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