Rugby football

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Shortcode: :rugby_football:
Unicode: U+1F3C9
HTML: 🏉
CSS: \1F3C9
JavaScript: "\u{1F3C9}"
URL: %F0%9F%8F%89

What 🏉 means

An oval rugby ball. It means rugby, in both its union and league forms.

Fans in places like New Zealand, the UK, Ireland, France, South Africa and Australia use it for match days and big tournaments.

Some Americans grab 🏉 for their own football by mistake; 🏈 is the American one.

Facts

Rugby football 🏉 is an emoji in the activities category, under sport. It became part of the emoji standard in Emoji 1.0, released in 2015. On GitHub, Slack and other apps you can type it as :rugby_football:. People also look for it with words like “ball”, “football”, “rugby”, or “sport”.