Person bouncing ball: light skin tone Emoji

People

A figure with a light skin tone mid-motion, dribbling or bouncing a ball. The design captures the kinetic energy of a sports player in the middle of a game.

Usage Context

Used to discuss basketball games, physical fitness, or recreational sports. It is frequently sent during high-stakes sporting events or when inviting friends to a pickup game. Users often pair it with the 🏀 basketball emoji or the 🏆 trophy to show competitive spirit.

History

This emoji was added in Unicode 8.0 in 2015 as part of an expansion to include skin tone modifiers for people-based characters. It was created to offer more inclusive representation for athletes, moving beyond the generic yellow characters that dominated early messaging platforms.

Details

Glyph

⛹🏻

Unicode

U+26F9 U+1F3FB

Shortcode

:emoji_u26f9_1f3fb:

HTML Entity

⛹&#xD83C;&#xDFFB;

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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