🎾Tennis Emoji
Generally, the 🎾 emoji simply means tennis. It’s a straightforward way to reference the sport or a tennis-related situation.
The 🎾 emoji represents a tennis ball and racket.
- Unicode
- U+1F3BE
- Released
- 2010
- Shortcode
- :tennis:
- Skin tones
- No
What does the 🎾 Tennis emoji mean?
One character, many names — these are the wordings people actually type, all 3 of them.
People also look for it as tennis ball emoji.
Tennis emoji on iPhone, Android, WhatsApp and X
Vendors keep repainting this one. Counting the archived versions further down, the tennis has been drawn in 5 ways.
iPhone, iPad, macOS
Android, Gmail, Chrome
X, Discord, Twemoji apps
Facebook, Messenger
Open-source, design systems
Galaxy, One UI
Windows, Teams, Fluent
WhatsApp on Android
Slack, Discord themes
See the whole set the way each system draws it — iPhone emojis, Android emojis, WhatsApp emojis and Discord emojis.
Tennis emoji copy and paste
Everything here is the same character in different notation — including the shortcode chat apps know it by, :tennis:.
In your code
Different notation, one result: whichever escape you paste, what comes out is U+1F3BE.
How to type the 🎾 Tennis emoji
Every system hides the emoji key somewhere else. Here is where, plus the raw codes for U+1F3BE when there is no key at all.
Tennis 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.
Apple
Google
Twitter / X
Tennis emoji combinations
Ready-made combos built around tennis for bios, captions and comments. Tap to copy.
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.
What 🎾 means from a girl or a guy
Same emoji, different intent depending on who sent it and what came before.
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.
Where the 🎾 Tennis 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+1F3BE 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
NTT DoCoMo E655, KDDI au E4B7, SoftBank E015.
Those codes are why it survived into the standard at all — Unicode had to keep Japanese messages readable.
Tennis was approved as U+1F3BE 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.