Person playing water polo

A player in the water reaching up with a ball. It means water polo, the team sport played in a deep pool.

Players and fans use it for matches, practices, and tournament updates, often with 🏆. People also borrow it for pool games, beach-ball fun, and splashing around on summer days.

Facts

Person playing water polo 🤽 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 :water_polo: or :person_playing_water_polo:. People also look for it with words like “person”, “playing”, “polo”, or “sport”.

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