Woman playing handball: light skin tone Emoji

People

A woman with light skin depicted in the motion of throwing a ball, typically associated with the sport of handball. The figure is shown mid-swing, capturing the physical intensity required to launch the ball toward a goal.

Usage Context

Used to discuss professional sports, gym activities, or physical fitness. People often use this when talking about competitive games or general ball-handling skills. It is frequently seen alongside other active icons like ⚽ or 🏀 to signify a team-oriented mindset or a workout session.

History

Handball has been a fixture in the Summer Olympics since the 1970s. This emoji was added to the Unicode standard in 2016 as part of a push to increase gender and activity representation in sports-themed digital communications, ensuring that female athletes were better represented in the growing library of sport-related icons.

Details

Glyph

🤾🏻‍♀

Unicode

U+1F93E U+1F3FB U+200D U+2640

Shortcode

:emoji_u1f93e_1f3fb_200d_2640:

HTML Entity

&#xD83E;&#xDD3E;&#xD83C;&#xDFFB;‍♀

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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