Man bouncing ball

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Shortcode: :basketball_man:
Shortcode: :bouncing_ball_man:
Unicode: U+26F9 U+FE0F U+200D U+2642 U+FE0F
HTML: ⛹️‍♂️
CSS: \26F9\FE0F\200D\2642\FE0F
JavaScript: "\u{26F9}\u{FE0F}\u{200D}\u{2642}\u{FE0F}"
URL: %E2%9B%B9%EF%B8%8F%E2%80%8D%E2%99%82%EF%B8%8F

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What ⛹️‍♂️ means

A man dribbling a basketball. It carries the same basketball meaning as ⛹️.

Men use it for pickup runs, league nights, and game-day hype for their team. It pairs with 🏀🔥 when a player is hot, and with 🏆 in playoff chatter.

Facts

Man bouncing ball ⛹️‍♂️ is an emoji in the people and body category, under person sport. It became part of the emoji standard in Emoji 4.0, released in 2016. It is a sequence that joins ⛹️ person bouncing ball and ♂️ male sign. Devices that do not know the sequence show those emoji side by side. It comes in five skin tones, from light to dark. On GitHub, Slack and other apps you can type it as :basketball_man: or :bouncing_ball_man:. People also look for it with words like “athletic”, “ball”, “basketball”, or “bouncing”.

Made of

⛹️+♂️=⛹️‍♂️

Timeline

2016Added to the emoji standard (Emoji 4.0)
2016Arrived with five skin tones (Emoji 4.0)

Design history

Google (Noto)

2017
2020

Twemoji (X, Discord)

2016
2019

Google Noto Emoji images: Apache 2.0. Twemoji graphics by X Corp and contributors: CC-BY 4.0.

people & body · Emoji 4.0