Person bouncing ball: medium skin tone Emoji

People

A figure with medium skin tone depicted in mid-motion, dribbling or bouncing a ball. The illustration captures a dynamic sports pose that emphasizes movement and physical activity.

Usage Context

Used to discuss basketball games, sports practice, or general fitness. It acts as a quick way to signal you are heading to the court or watching a live match. It is frequently sent alongside 🏀 to emphasize the sport or 🔥 to highlight an impressive play.

History

This emoji originated as a gender-neutral icon before being updated to support skin tone modifiers in 2016. Its design is rooted in the expansion of human-centric emojis, aiming to make digital communication more inclusive of diverse physical activities and identities in the era of mobile messaging.

Details

Glyph

⛹🏽

Unicode

U+26F9 U+1F3FD

Shortcode

:emoji_u26f9_1f3fd:

HTML Entity

⛹&#xD83C;&#xDFFD;

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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