Person playing handball

A player jumping to throw a ball. It means handball, the fast indoor team sport that is popular across Europe.

Fans use it for matches, leagues, and championships. Outside handball, people use it for any throw: dodgeball, tossing something across the room, or launching a problem at someone else.

It shows team handball, not the wall game also called handball in the United States.

Facts

Person playing handball 🤾 is an emoji in the people and body category, under person sport. It became part of the emoji standard in Emoji 3.0, released in 2016. 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 :handball_person: or :person_playing_handball:. People also look for it with words like “athletics”, “ball”, “catch”, or “chuck”.

Timeline

1. 2016Added to the emoji standard (Emoji 3.0)
2. 2016Arrived with five skin tones (Emoji 3.0)
3. 20162 new emoji built from it (Emoji 4.0)🤾‍♂️🤾‍♀️

Design history

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

people & body · Emoji 3.0