Man playing water polo: dark skin tone Emoji

People

A dark-skinned man in the middle of a swimming stroke, holding a yellow water polo ball in one hand. The character is depicted as if treading water, highlighting the physical intensity of the sport.

Usage Context

Used to discuss water polo matches, swimming workouts, or aquatic sports in general. People often use this when cheering on a team or talking about pool-based fitness. It is frequently grouped with related sports gear like 🏊 or 🤽 to indicate a day spent in the water.

History

Water polo was one of the first team sports added to the modern Olympic program in 1900. This emoji was introduced in Unicode 10.0 in 2017 to allow for more inclusive representation of athletes within the growing set of modifier-compatible people emojis.

Details

Glyph

🤽🏿‍♂

Unicode

U+1F93D U+1F3FF U+200D U+2642

Shortcode

:emoji_u1f93d_1f3ff_200d_2642:

HTML Entity

&#xD83E;&#xDD3D;&#xD83C;&#xDFFF;‍♂

Specifications

Vendor Twitter/X

Category People

Subcategory person-sport

Unicode Version 6.0

Emoji Version 1.0

License CC-BY 4.0

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