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:bouncing_ball_person::person_bouncing_ball:U+26F9⛹\26F9"\u{26F9}"%E2%9B%B9%EF%B8%8FA player dribbling a ball. It means basketball almost every time: a pickup game, practice, or watching a match.
People send it with 🏀 for games, scores, and trash talk about who is on fire. It also works for practice in any ball sport, and for showing off a new move on the court.
Person bouncing ball ⛹️ is an emoji in the people and body category, under person sport. It is one of the early emoji from Japanese phones, standardized in Unicode 7.0 (2014). It comes in five skin tones, from light to dark. 2 other emoji use it as a building block. On GitHub, Slack and other apps you can type it as :bouncing_ball_person: or :person_bouncing_ball:. People also look for it with words like “athletic”, “ball”, “basketball”, or “bouncing”.
Google (Noto)
2017
2019Twemoji (X, Discord)
2016
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