Person bouncing ball: medium-dark skin tone Emoji

People

A figure with medium-dark skin depicted in mid-motion while dribbling a ball. The character is shown in a crouched, active stance, signaling movement and physical coordination.

Usage Context

This emoji is frequently used to discuss basketball games, team sports, or physical exercise. It acts as a quick way to signal you are headed to the gym or to talk about a live match. It is often sent alongside the 🏀 emoji to specify the sport.

History

This character originated as a gender-neutral silhouette in early character sets. As platform support for diverse skin tones expanded through Unicode 8.0 in 2015, the ability to apply modifiers like the medium-dark skin tone allowed users to better represent athletes of different backgrounds in digital conversations.

Details

Glyph

⛹🏾

Unicode

U+26F9 U+1F3FE

Shortcode

:emoji_u26f9_1f3fe:

HTML Entity

⛹&#xD83C;&#xDFFE;

Specifications

Vendor Twitter/X

Category People

Subcategory person-sport

Unicode Version 6.0

Emoji Version 1.0

License CC-BY 4.0

Twemoji Attribution

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

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