Activities · Emoji 0.6
🎳Bowling Emoji
Generally, the 🎳 emoji means bowling. People use it to express they're thinking about bowling or to suggest going bowling.
The 🎳 emoji represents a bowling ball and pins.
- Unicode
- U+1F3B3
- Released
- 2010
- Shortcode
- :bowling:
- Skin tones
- No
01 — Meaning
What does the 🎳 Bowling emoji mean?
People search for this character under a lot of different names, and the ones we have collected number 4.
02 — Platforms
Bowling emoji on iPhone, Android, WhatsApp and X
Same code on both ends, different drawing on each screen — here is the bowling as 9 vendors ship it.
See the whole set the way each system draws it — iPhone emojis, Android emojis, WhatsApp emojis and Discord emojis.
03 — Copy & codes
Bowling emoji copy and paste
Everything here is the same character in different notation — including the shortcode chat apps know it by, :bowling:.
All emoji copy and paste →In your code
Escapes for the languages people actually paste this into. Every one of them produces the same character, and that character is U+1F3B3.
04 — How to type
How to type the 🎳 Bowling emoji
No picker to hand? The bowling can be typed straight from the keyboard — the codes for that are below, one per system.
05 — Download
Bowling emoji PNG and SVG
Transparent PNG and SVG for thumbnails, decks and design files — one file per vendor, which makes 9. Artwork belongs to whoever drew it, so check the licence before commercial use.
Emoji PNG library →
Apple
Google
Twitter / X
Facebook
WhatsApp
06 — Combinations
Bowling emoji combinations
Ready-made combos built around bowling for bios, captions and comments. Tap to copy.
All combinations →Want two emojis fused into one sticker instead of set side by side? Emoji Kitchen does that with 🎳, and there are more ready-made pairs in emoji combinations and aesthetic emoji combos.
08 — In conversation
What 🎳 means from a girl or a guy
Who sent the bowling and what came before it change the reading more than the emoji itself does.
09 — Apps
What 🎳 means on TikTok, WhatsApp and Discord
The character is the same everywhere, but the artwork and the reading of it change from app to app.
11 — History
Where the 🎳 Bowling emoji came from
This one is older than Unicode emoji: Japanese carriers were drawing it on their handsets years before the standard existed, which it finally joined in 2010.
Same character every time — U+1F3B3 never changed. Only the drawing did, and only because each vendor redraws its own set. Someone on an older phone still sees the older picture.
Long before Unicode had emoji, Japanese carriers shipped their own picture sets.
🎳 existed there as
KDDI au EB43.
Those codes are why it survived into the standard at all — Unicode had to keep Japanese messages readable.
Bowling was approved as U+1F3B3 and shipped in Emoji 0.6 (2010). Emoji 0.6 is the original 2010 batch that came over from the Japanese sets.
Every vendor keeps its own artwork, so 🎳 is redrawn by Apple, Google, Twitter / X, Facebook, OpenMoji, Samsung, Microsoft, WhatsApp, JoyPixels. The character you send never changes — only the picture does.
12 — FAQ