🤾 is called "Person Playing Handball". Its official Unicode name is person playing handball.

On SmileyZone just click the 🤾 emoji – it goes straight to your clipboard, ready to paste into WhatsApp, Instagram, TikTok or any other app.

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🤾 Person Playing Handball

Send Person Playing Handball for athletics, ball and catch.

⚽ Activities & Sports since 2016 · Unicode 9.0

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💡 Meaning

🤾 Person Playing Handball is one of the sporting people in Unicode's People & Body group. In practice it comes up around athletics, ball, catch and chuck. Further official keywords are handball, hurl, lob and person.

📱 Typical Usage

🤾 fits messaging apps, social networks and anywhere a short visual cue helps. On SmileyZone it is filed under Activities and Sports. It joined the standard with Emoji 3.0 in 2016, so support on current devices is reliable. Its code point is U+1F93E. The emoji also comes in 5 skin tone variants, listed in the sidebar.

✍️ Usage Examples

🤾 on its own already flags the topic: athletics.
Fits messages about athletics, ball, catch and chuck.
Often seen near 🤽🏻‍♀️ Woman Playing Water Polo: Light Skin Tone, 🤾🏻 Person Playing Handball: Light Skin Tone and 🤽‍♀️ Woman Playing Water Polo.

📈 Trends & Pop Culture

In messages around athletics, catch, chuck, hurl and lob, 🤾 is a common shorthand. In the wiki it sits in the Activities & Sports category.

🔗 Popular Combinations

🤾🤹 – Person Playing Handball and Person Juggling
🤾🤽‍♂️ – Person Playing Handball with Man Playing Water Polo
🤾🤽 – Person Playing Handball plus Person Playing Water Polo
🤾🤽‍♀️ – Person Playing Handball and Woman Playing Water Polo

⚠️ Confusion Risk

Easy to mix up with 🤽🏻‍♀️ Woman Playing Water Polo: Light Skin Tone, 🤾🏻 Person Playing Handball: Light Skin Tone or 🤽‍♀️ Woman Playing Water Polo. They sit in the same Unicode subgroup and look similar at small sizes, so it is worth checking the name before sending.