Person playing handball: dark skin tone Emoji

People

A dark-skinned athlete caught in the motion of throwing a ball, shown mid-leap with their arm drawn back. The figure wears a sporty outfit, capturing the fast-paced nature of team handball.

Usage Context

Used to discuss sports, physical training, or the specific game of handball. Because the pose mimics a forceful throw, it is frequently used to represent tossing an object, lobbing a pass, or participating in intense physical activity alongside other sports icons like 🏀 or 🏐.

History

This emoji was introduced in Unicode 9.0 in 2016. It is part of a larger set of athlete emojis that adopted the Fitzpatrick scale modifiers, allowing users to customize skin tones to better represent the global diversity of competitive sports players.

Details

Glyph

🤾🏿

Unicode

U+1F93E U+1F3FF

Shortcode

:emoji_u1f93e_1f3ff:

HTML Entity

&#xD83E;&#xDD3E;&#xD83C;&#xDFFF;

Specifications

Vendor Twitter/X

Category People

Subcategory person-sport

Unicode Version 6.0

Emoji Version 1.0

License CC-BY 4.0

Twemoji Attribution

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