Woman bouncing ball: medium skin tone Emoji

People

A female figure with medium skin tone depicted in mid-action, dribbling a basketball. She is shown in a crouched, athletic stance with the ball near the ground, capturing the momentum of play.

Usage Context

This emoji is frequently used to discuss sports, physical training, or game day excitement. It serves as a go-to for basketball fans or those celebrating a win, often paired with the 🏀 basketball emoji or 🏆 trophy to signal a championship victory.

History

The bouncing ball figure was originally a gender-neutral icon in early emoji sets. The woman version was added in Unicode 9.0 in 2016 as part of a push to provide gender-specific representations for various professions and activities, following the expansion of skin tone modifiers introduced in 2015.

Details

Glyph

⛹🏽‍♀

Unicode

U+26F9 U+1F3FD U+200D U+2640

Shortcode

:emoji_u26f9_1f3fd_200d_2640:

HTML Entity

⛹&#xD83C;&#xDFFD;‍♀

Specifications

Vendor Google

Category People

Subcategory person-sport

Unicode Version 6.0

Emoji Version 1.0

License CC-BY 4.0

Google Noto License

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

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