Person playing water polo: medium-dark skin tone Emoji

People

A figure with medium-dark skin depicted in the middle of a swimming stroke, holding a yellow water polo ball above the water's surface. The imagery captures the intense, vertical tread required to stay afloat during a match.

Usage Context

Used to discuss professional sports, aquatic training, or weekend pool activities. It serves as the go-to icon for water polo teams and fans, often appearing alongside other aquatic icons like 🏊 or 🤽 to indicate a competitive game.

History

Water polo was added to the emoji set in 2016 as part of the Unicode 9.0 update. It was part of a major initiative to diversify the range of athletic representations available, moving beyond basic sports balls to include the actual players in action.

Details

Glyph

🤽🏾

Unicode

U+1F93D U+1F3FE

Shortcode

:emoji_u1f93d_1f3fe:

HTML Entity

&#xD83E;&#xDD3D;&#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

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