Woman playing handball Emoji

People

A female figure in motion, captured mid-air as she prepares to throw a small ball. She is depicted wearing a jersey and shorts, frozen in the action of an aggressive jump shot typical of the sport.

Usage Context

This emoji is used to discuss handball matches, gym class, or general high-energy sports. It is often sent alongside other active sports icons like 🏀 or 🏐 to show enthusiasm for team athletics or to document a workout session.

History

Handball has been a fixture of the Summer Olympics since the 1972 Munich Games, but this specific emoji didn't arrive until Unicode 9.0 in 2016. It was part of a major push by the Unicode Consortium to include gender-specific roles for athletic activities that were previously represented only by male or neutral figures.

Details

Glyph

🤾‍♀

Unicode

U+1F93E U+200D U+2640

Shortcode

:emoji_u1f93e_200d_2640:

HTML Entity

&#xD83E;&#xDD3E;‍♀

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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