People & Body · Emoji 3.0
🤽Person Playing Water Polo Emoji
Generally, it just means someone is playing water polo. It’s a visual way to represent the sport.
The 🤽 emoji represents a person playing water polo.
- Unicode
- U+1F93D
- Released
- 2016
- Shortcode
- :water_
polo: - Skin tones
- Yes
01 — Meaning
What does the 🤽 Person Playing Water Polo emoji mean?
People search for this character under a lot of different names, and the ones we have collected number 7.
02 — Platforms
Person Playing Water Polo emoji on iPhone, Android, WhatsApp and X
Same code on both ends, different drawing on each screen — here is the person playing water polo 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 — Skin tones
Person Playing Water Polo emoji skin tones
🤽 supports all five Fitzpatrick skin tone modifiers. Each one is a separate character sequence — tap any to copy it.
04 — Copy & codes
Person Playing Water Polo emoji copy and paste
Everything here is the same character in different notation — including the shortcode chat apps know it by, :water_polo:.
All emoji copy and paste →In your code
Different notation, one result: whichever escape you paste, what comes out is U+1F93D.
05 — How to type
How to type the 🤽 Person Playing Water Polo emoji
No picker to hand? The person playing water polo can be typed straight from the keyboard — the codes for that are below, one per system.
06 — Download
Person Playing Water Polo emoji PNG and SVG
Grab the person playing water polo as transparent PNG or SVG. Each system ships its own drawing, and the licence stays with the vendor, all 9 of them.
Emoji PNG library →
Apple
Google
Twitter / X
Facebook
Microsoft
07 — Combinations
Person Playing Water Polo emoji combinations
Ready-made combos built around person playing water polo 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 for every pair Google has drawn, 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
Same emoji, different intent depending on who sent it and what came before.
09 — Apps
What 🤽 means on TikTok, WhatsApp and Discord
Chat apps do not change U+1F93D, they change what it looks like and what people take it to mean.
11 — Difference
🤽 vs 🤸 — what is the difference?
Two emojis that get mixed up constantly. They are different characters with different names.
Unicode name: Person Playing Water Polo
Code: U+1F93D · added 2016
Shortcode: :water_polo:
Generally, it just means someone is playing water polo.
Unicode name: Person Cartwheeling
Code: U+1F938 · added 2016
Shortcode: :person_doing_cartwheel:
Generally, the 🤸 emoji means someone is feeling energetic, happy, or excited about something.
12 — History
Where the 🤽 Person Playing Water Polo emoji came from
It arrived with the 3.0 release of the standard, which dates the person playing water polo to 2016.
Same character every time — U+1F93D 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.
Person Playing Water Polo was approved as U+1F93D and shipped in Emoji 3.0 (2016). Phones usually get new artwork about a year after approval, in a system update.
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.
13 — FAQ