⛹️Person Bouncing Ball Emoji
Basically, it means someone is good at basketball or is involved in a basketball-related situation. It’s often used to show support or admiration for a player.
The ⛹️ emoji shows a person bouncing a basketball.
- Unicode
- U+26F9 U+FE0F
- Released
- 2014
- Shortcode
- :person_with_ball:
- Skin tones
- Yes
What does the ⛹️ Person Bouncing Ball emoji mean?
One character, many names — these are the wordings people actually type, all 10 of them.
Person Bouncing Ball emoji on iPhone, Android, WhatsApp and X
The character is always U+26F9 — but every vendor draws it their own way. This is what your person bouncing ball looks like to the person on the other side.
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.
Person Bouncing Ball emoji skin tones
⛹️ supports all five Fitzpatrick skin tone modifiers. Each one is a separate character sequence — tap any to copy it.
Person Bouncing Ball emoji copy and paste
Everything here is the same character in different notation — including the shortcode chat apps know it by, :person_with_ball:.
In your code
Different notation, one result: whichever escape you paste, what comes out is U+26F9.
How to type the ⛹️ Person Bouncing Ball emoji
Where the emoji key lives on each system — and the codes for when there is no picker at all.
Person Bouncing Ball emoji PNG and SVG
Grab the person bouncing ball as transparent PNG or SVG. Each system ships its own drawing, and the licence stays with the vendor, all 9 of them.
Apple
Google
Twitter / X
Person Bouncing Ball emoji combinations
Ready-made combos built around person bouncing ball 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
The same character carries a different intent depending on the sender and the message before it.
What ⛹️ means on TikTok, WhatsApp and Discord
One code point, several readings — where the person bouncing ball lands changes how it is taken.
⛹️ vs 🏋️ — what is the difference?
Two emojis that get mixed up constantly. They are different characters with different names.
Unicode name: Person Bouncing Ball
Code: U+26F9 U+FE0F · added 2014
Shortcode: :person_with_ball:
Basically, it means someone is good at basketball or is involved in a basketball-related situation.
Unicode name: Person Lifting Weights
Code: U+1F3CB U+FE0F · added 2014
Shortcode: :weight_lifter:
Generally, it just means someone is talking about working out or being physically strong.
Where the ⛹️ Person Bouncing Ball emoji came from
Approved as part of Emoji 0.7, the person bouncing ball has been on phones for years now — counting from its release, 12.
Person Bouncing Ball was approved as U+26F9 U+FE0F and shipped in Emoji 0.7 (2014). 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.