Person playing handball: light skin tone Emoji

People

A figure depicted in motion with a light skin tone, mid-air or mid-stride, with one arm raised as if preparing to throw a ball. The design captures the dynamic posture of a player in a competitive team sport.

Usage Context

Used to discuss handball matches, gym class activities, or general athletic prowess. It serves as a go-to for sports enthusiasts looking to highlight a fast-paced game or a specific throwing technique. It is frequently grouped with equipment like the ⚽ or general sports signals like 🥇.

History

This emoji was added to the Unicode standard in 2016 as part of the expansion of sports-related pictographs. It was developed to provide more diverse representations of popular international games that weren't as globally codified as soccer or basketball in earlier digital sets.

Details

Glyph

🤾🏻

Unicode

U+1F93E U+1F3FB

Shortcode

:emoji_u1f93e_1f3fb:

HTML Entity

&#xD83E;&#xDD3E;&#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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